I installed windows server 8 next to my windows 7 recently and wanted to be able to connect to it through RDP, after setting it up I figured it would be good to make my D: drive (the drive that keeps my documents) inaccessible within that OS however I did not realize it would also change the permissions for my user/administrator accounts on my main Windows 7. The majority of the drive I have regained access to by using takeown and icalcs in cmd. However there are a few folders that I have been unable to access in anyway. Here are the things I have tried(cmd ran as Administrator): D:\>takeown /F "D:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security" /A /R /D Y result: ERROR: Access is denied. D:\>icacls "D:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security" /T /Q /C /RESET result: D:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security: Access is denied. D:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Smart Security\*: Access is denied.Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 2 files secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose The page where I found this read it would reset the security to default however in the log file(scesrv.log) it contained alot of access denied warnings (let me know if log file is needed). I am completely lost on this issue. One of the folders that is inaccessible is quite important because it contains my antivirus software. p.s. I have a NAS with plenty of space to backup the accessible data to and re-do the entire partition however it would take alot of time to copy the ~800gb back and forth so I'm hoping for a different solution.

The first thing I would do is make sure there is not an explicit Deny for ownership or change permissions. Do this by right clicking on the file or folder, select Properties. On the Properties window select the security tab. Next click advanced, on the Advanced Security Settings screen check if there are any deny settings that may be preventing you from changing the permissions/owner. Also try safe mode for changing permissions/owner, to ensure that a third party application/service is not preventing you from change the settings. Donald