Need OS help

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:24 am

Interesting suggestion, I shall give it a shot.

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 12:33 pm

I say you should give up and cut you loses and refomate you HD. It may be the easiea and best solution to you problem

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 12:50 pm

Timelessblurr wrote:I say you should give up and cut you loses and refomate you HD. It may be the easiea and best solution to you problem

Except that defeats the whole purpose of all this work. I need to save a copy of the files that are in the area I can't currently access (didn't work Kthulhu). If I can save a copy of them to CD or something, then I could care less if Win XP is farked, I'd gladly wipe the drive out and re-install the operating system.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 12:55 pm

This is probably the dumbest question I'll ask this year, but since it's Windows XP, I'll do it anyway. You did try a system recovery before you removed your hard drive, didn't you? To reset the user settings and restore the computer's original formats? That wouldn't affect any of your files, but would reset the user information. If it locks up before you can get to the setup menu (F2?) and then the recovery menu (F8 - maybe F10), then nevermind.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:03 pm

Here's another silly idea:

Right-click on the folder and select "Properties"
Under the Sharing tab, leave a checkmark on "Share this folder on the network"
Click OK.

If Windows gives you an error message for that just ignore.

Try open the folder again.

good luck.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:35 pm

It didn't work, Arigatomyna, but thank you for input.

EK, what you suggested worked...sorta. I can now access "Jonathan". The files in it are readable (i.e. ntuser.dat) but all of the other folders within "Jonathan" are still unaccessable (even when attempting the same thing that got "Jonathan" to open up.) It is a step forward, though, thank you very much.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:39 pm

okay.. try this. make the folder, or the harddrive shared. also checkmark the option "Allow network users to change my files". If windows gives you error once then ignore, repeat the above steps & check both options.

If you still cant access the folders then sorry, that's the far I can help.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:02 pm

I'm so happy

I finally got it to work. *Stupid XP* The whole problem was I needed to disable simple file sharing. After I did that, I could go to the Security tab within properties, authorize the user's, set their access level, and apply the settings to all files and folders within that folder.

With simple file sharing on, I couldn't get to the security tab.
/me kicks XP

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:05 pm

And that's it folks.

Happy days are here once again for Jon Martensen.

Congratulations everyone, great job.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:07 pm

Indeed. Thakn you all for your suggestions, and aid along the way.