access denied folder

**bertie** · October 7th, 2004, 04:00 AM

i have the same probleme reloaded windowsxp and now my old folder says access denied .But i dont have a security setting .
can someone help me please thank you

**corturbra** · October 7th, 2004, 04:05 AM

Hi Bertie welcome to windrivers

We'll need some more information on this, when you say reloaded XP was that a clean re-install or just installation over the top of the original setup?

Are you logging in using the same user-name as previous? Usually this happens when you change user/or re-install windows and it changes the SID (security identifier) which it uses to verify that you are the correct user. Chances are thats what the issue is.

Make sure you are an administrator of the PC and right click on the folder, choose Properties, Click on the Security tab and check that you have rights to the folder and that everything listed, is a name and not something like ??5151-454355......

Whilst on the Security tab, click Advanced and then on Owner, you should be able to use this part to take ownership of the folder.

**corturbra** · October 7th, 2004, 04:29 AM

Just got your PM..... what was the reasoning behind deleting the windows folder? How did you delete the windows folder? What folder can you now not get access to?

**corturbra** · October 7th, 2004, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by bertie

I use windows cd to bootup and then at a certain time u can delete the hard drive or just press L to delete windows dir.The folder i can not access is my main folder of windows c:\documents and settings\bmbooks that was my main folder i logged on to windows as bmbooks.
now i can not access bmbooks folder after i reloaded windows.

thank you for your intrest

Hi there is the folder still there? It sounds like you've overwritten the windows partition, not the windows folder.

**confus-ed** · October 7th, 2004, 06:00 AM

Originally Posted by corturbra

Hi there is the folder still there? It sounds like you've overwritten the windows partition, not the windows folder.

Is the full pm shown above ? - as a note on 'practice' if folks pm me with further details, I just shove them on the thread 'as is' with a note saying 'received via pm' {effectively making a post for bertie} & then start answering, so that others of course can add

Bertie: if you answer the questions asked so far then this looks solvable, once we know just what you did

**corturbra** · October 7th, 2004, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

Is the full pm shown above ? - as a note on 'practice' if folks pm me with further details, I just shove them on the thread 'as is' with a note saying 'received via pm' {effectively making a post for bertie} & then start answering, so that others of course can add

Bertie: if you answer the questions asked so far then this looks solvable, once we know just what you did

Yep full PM shown.