Help Hard drive problem

Kazu

I turn on my pc this morning i got the dell screen and then the black screen and a little flashing line which is normal but it stays there and dosent go to the windows xp screen




I tryed the Dell windows xp disk and ran the repair windows xp did not work

I tryed removing the hard drive and putting it into an external hard drive case and attaching it to another pc useing usb could see all the folders on the C: drive but i want two folder on the desktop which are of great importance but i go into documents and settings and then my administrator folder and say access denied

I tryed the recovery console on the dell windows xp disk and says
C:/windows
and the asks for a administration password and then i enter the password i had for my administrator account and say invalid password

is there any way of getting the two folders for the desktop and not wiping the whole disk and installing a fresh copy of windows xp

DjDangerousDave

Are u sure that the folders that you are looking for are in the admins documents and settings?

Zaph0d

Kazu wrote:

and the asks for a administration password and then i enter the password i had for my administrator account and say invalid password

try just presing return when it asks for a password.

is there any way of getting the two folders for the desktop

yes. Take ownership of the folder and all subfolders. Grant yourself permission on the folder and on all subfolders.

Steps:

• Right click on the folder that gives you access denied.
• Choose properties
• Click on the security tab
• Click the Advanced button
• Click the owner tab
• Set yourself as the owner
• Click the box marked 'replace the owner on subcontainers and objects'
• Go to the permission tab in the advanced security dialog box.
• Give yourself full control
• Click 'reset permission on all child objects...'

Someone tell me if there is a smarter way to do this. It's something about NT SIDs being different on different machines.

Kazu

no



C:\Documents and Settings\mY user name\Desktop


i click on my user name folder and says access denied

Kazu

Right click on the folder that gives you access denied.
Choose properties
Click on the security tab
Click the Advanced button
Click the owner tab
Set yourself as the owner
Click the box marked 'replace the owner on subcontainers and objects'
Go to the permission tab in the advanced security dialog box.
Give yourself full control
Click 'reset permission on all child objects...'

ok iam here F:\Documents and Settings\JoeBloggs

i want to get into the Desktop folder


there is no security tab

Zaph0d

Sorry I was looking at my win2k machine. XP doesn't show you the security tab by default. Instructions on how to see it are here:
http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20050307_displaying_the_security_tab_in_xp_home_edition.phtml

Kazu

thank you


i had to boot into safe mode to see the security tab

Wandering Dazed

If you can get into the recovery console, try running fixroot and fixmbr commands. Sounds like the boot record on the drive is damaged.