Vista - NTFS file permission

Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries,

I have 3 questions:
Recently I installed Windows Vista, like most of us. I didn't had the
upgrade option, so I did a full install.
After installing I realized I had a folder/files on an external Disk Drive,
with NTFS file Permission. Result is I cannot acces the folder/files anymore.
I tried to take ownership, which I'm not permitted to. I can retrieve the
files, after some intense work, so I prefer keeping them, but I wouldn't care
a lot losing them, so I tried to delete them. I don't have sufficient
permissions for this, neither. The files are occupying a 28 GB (more or less,
windows says the folder's empty which it's not), so that's kind of space I'd
like to recover.
I still remeber login and password, so, is there anyway I can recover/delete
these files, without formatting). (1)
I know there's a difference between User (administrator) and Administrator,
I don't know how to log-on as the latter (how? 2), and does it make a
difference to my kind of problem? (3)

thank in advance,
Christophe

PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help
me any further. Which remains is (1).
Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID.
I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or
another to acces my files. But how?

you could just put the drive into a computer running XP, if you need a quick
solution, but it would be nice to have a way to do it in vista.

RossB

"Christophe" wrote:

> PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help
> me any further. Which remains is (1).
> Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID.
> I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or
> another to acces my files. But how?

The password is encrypted and stored in the registry and it has to match the
password you provide. If you can't reproduce the old registry entry there is
no match.

bob

"Christophe" wrote:

> PS : I found out how to log on as Administrator, and found out it didn't help
> me any further. Which remains is (1).
> Additional information: problem seems to be related to SID.
> I have SID, username, password: These three should allow me in a way or
> another to acces my files. But how?

Hello,
I believe I have the same problem in that I partitioned my harddrive so I
could dual boot into vista or xp. I now cannot access anything from the xp
partition while in vista, and cannot even view the vista partition while in
xp.
Is there currently no realistic way to enable access to my xp partition
while in vista?

"Christophe" wrote:

> Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries,
>
> I have 3 questions:
> Recently I installed Windows Vista, like most of us. I didn't had the
> upgrade option, so I did a full install.
> After installing I realized I had a folder/files on an external Disk Drive,
> with NTFS file Permission. Result is I cannot acces the folder/files anymore.
> I tried to take ownership, which I'm not permitted to. I can retrieve the
> files, after some intense work, so I prefer keeping them, but I wouldn't care
> a lot losing them, so I tried to delete them. I don't have sufficient
> permissions for this, neither. The files are occupying a 28 GB (more or less,
> windows says the folder's empty which it's not), so that's kind of space I'd
> like to recover.
> I still remeber login and password, so, is there anyway I can recover/delete
> these files, without formatting). (1)
> I know there's a difference between User (administrator) and Administrator,
> I don't know how to log-on as the latter (how? 2), and does it make a
> difference to my kind of problem? (3)
>
> thank in advance,
> Christophe

As with previous posts, again this is probably a local admin problem...
Technically no one is really a true administrator until all prompts and user
securitys are disabled in the security settings panel...
(start/run/secpol.msc/local policies/security options/scroll to bottom) and
then going into control panel and changing you account to an admistrator
manually. I initially thought i was an admin but your really only a local
admin by default. Go figure! Plus it gets rid of all those annoying pop up
warnings.



"Christophe" wrote:

> Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries,
>
> I have 3 questions:
> Recently I installed Windows Vista, like most of us. I didn't had the
> upgrade option, so I did a full install.
> After installing I realized I had a folder/files on an external Disk Drive,
> with NTFS file Permission. Result is I cannot acces the folder/files anymore.
> I tried to take ownership, which I'm not permitted to. I can retrieve the
> files, after some intense work, so I prefer keeping them, but I wouldn't care
> a lot losing them, so I tried to delete them. I don't have sufficient
> permissions for this, neither. The files are occupying a 28 GB (more or less,
> windows says the folder's empty which it's not), so that's kind of space I'd
> like to recover.
> I still remeber login and password, so, is there anyway I can recover/delete
> these files, without formatting). (1)
> I know there's a difference between User (administrator) and Administrator,
> I don't know how to log-on as the latter (how? 2), and does it make a
> difference to my kind of problem? (3)
>
> thank in advance,
> Christophe

Try running as a member of Backup Operators. That should give some access
reguardless of NTFS permissions.

"Christophe" wrote:

> Hello fellow vis(t)ionaries,
>
> I have 3 questions:
> Recently I installed Windows Vista, like most of us. I didn't had the
> upgrade option, so I did a full install.
> After installing I realized I had a folder/files on an external Disk Drive,
> with NTFS file Permission. Result is I cannot acces the folder/files anymore.
> I tried to take ownership, which I'm not permitted to. I can retrieve the
> files, after some intense work, so I prefer keeping them, but I wouldn't care
> a lot losing them, so I tried to delete them. I don't have sufficient
> permissions for this, neither. The files are occupying a 28 GB (more or less,
> windows says the folder's empty which it's not), so that's kind of space I'd
> like to recover.
> I still remeber login and password, so, is there anyway I can recover/delete
> these files, without formatting). (1)
> I know there's a difference between User (administrator) and Administrator,
> I don't know how to log-on as the latter (how? 2), and does it make a
> difference to my kind of problem? (3)
>
> thank in advance,
> Christophe