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NTFS Access is Denied

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by koryz2006

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Primary system drive C: (WinXP Pro) had NTFS partitioning as well as drive G: (external firewire 160GB Maxtor)

C: became corrupt and WinXP Pro "clean" reinstalled using FAT32

My Documents folder that resided on drive G: is now receiving error message:

"G:\My Documents is not accessible."

"Access is Denied"

Properties of folder state Size 0 bytes, 0 Files/0 Folders

Contents of G: Drive show approx 35GB unaccounted for that used to be in this folder.

I desperatly need accessto this folder and its contents. Is there any way to gain access. I am logged in with administrator privilages and know my passwords but double clicking the folder results in the same error message. Right-clicking has the "make folder private" button deselected and not a live option (grayed out). Do I need third-party software to access this?

All other files/folders directly under G: root directory are accessible except this folder.

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by erikdr

This is by design in XP and W2K/NT. After the reformat, your system now has a new SID and the fact that the admin password is same on old and new identity does not help.

Try a 'cracker' like tool like NTFSDOS, available for free on many downloadsites. Simply run it from a DOS disk to access the drive-with-difficulties...

Hope this helps,

- The Netherlands

by koryz2006

1) I can only find NTFS DOS for a price (would like to try it thought)

2) Maxtor firewire drive is only seen through windows not DOS.

by r. a. caluste

As long you have administrator privileges, you can take ownership of the files back. Right-click on the folder (or file), select properties, go to security tab, click advanced, go to owner tab, and under change owner to: select administrator, and check replace owner on subcontainers and objects and click ok. once you have the ownership, bestow all necessary privileges on yourself and access the files.

hope this helps.

by koryz2006

Maybe your using WIN2000PRO, I am using WINXPro. There is no security tab after right-click on the folder, select properties. There is a sharing tab but the "make folder private" selection is unchecked and not a 'live' option-grayed out.

by koryz2006

i ended up trying to use the windows backup utility and throught the os it had become viewable, backed up and saved to a different location, although all files and folders weren't able to be saved in logical (hierarchial) order

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