Hi all, I really need some help! I have a client whose Windows 2003 Small Business Server mother board burned. They have a raid 10 controller with 4 drives. They want to recover their data. I was able to mount the raid 10 in my Windows 7 x64 system without problem. I was able to get into the public network share folders by seizing ownership. However, the client was using roaming profiles, and the folders that had the roaming profile information, especially the "My Documents" folders are not cooperating with me! Unfortunately the users saved most of their data in the roaming profile "My Documents" area. Here's what I've tried: Logged in as a administrator to the Windows 7 computer, I've tried to seize ownership of the folders by right mouse clicking on the folder, SECURITY / ADVANCED / OWNER / EDIT / Checked REPLACE OWNER ON SUBCONTAINERS AND OBJECTS / Highlight my user name / APPLY. It starts going, but is stopped over and over by pop-ups saying "An error occurred while applying security information to 'path\file'... Access Denied <continue>. I get the same message if I go to SECURITY / ADVANCED / PERMISSIONS / Checked REPLACE ALL CHILD OBJECT PERMISSIONS WITH INHERITABLE PERMISSIONS FROM THIS OBJECT. Also I've tried both in safe mode.. same thing. I also tried (long shot) in a dos window, in the folder in question: ATTRIB -r -h -s /s *.*, but I get access denied messages. If I just try to copy/paste the folder to my Windows 7 C: drive, "You need permissions to perform this action. You require permissions from the computer's administrator to make changes to this file." I've also checked "Do this for all current items" and clicked on Try Again. This will not work either. I set the User Access Control to Never Notify, and my account is an administrator. I tried using the CACLS command, but I'm not getting the syntax right. Not to make this any longer... The clients were using Microsoft Backup to backup the server to a networked computer. They downsized their office, without me knowing in August 2009, and they turned off and disconnected the backup computer. *sigh*Is there some trick I'm missing? I need to recover my clients data. Can any one help, please? Thanks in advance for any ideas!-Rob

Have you tried taking ownership of the whole drive? You'll probably run into the same access denied errors, but its worth a shot. Is this the clients DC? Do they have an alternate server that you can join your machine to their DC with? My thought process is to get yourself joined / logging into your PC on their domain (as administrator) with their raid set in your Win 7, as then you may have a better chance at viewing the data. But if this is their only DC then that's probably what's giving you all the headaches. You can of course find the same motherboard, or same chipset and get the machine itself booting and transfer the data off.

Hey there Jpag, Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't tried taking ownership of the whole drive, just the folder trees I needed. I wanted to leave as little of a footprint (change) as possible. So at this point I just want the data :). I just tried the whole drive as you suggested, and ran into the same issues. It was the only DC and there are no member servers. I might have an old motherboard that has a similar chipset... will look into that. I'm surprised that there's no direct administrator command to reset file/folder permissions (that I can find).Thanks, Rob

When you take ownership of the drive, take out all other users but your local administrator / everyone and try it again. Another good one to try would be to utilize secedit (located in C:\windows\system32) to reset security on the local file storage. MS Link is here - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313222 Follow the Vista portions of it, as it isn't official for Windows 7.

Hey there All, I found a solution. Most of the solution came from Method 2 from the following link: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7security/thread/ff53b25c-fbb3-4603-be08-28f18a0748b6/ I did it slightly different, here's what worked for me. 1) Run administrator elevated command prompt 2) TAKEOWN /F <drive:\path> /R /D Y 3) ICACLS <drive:\path> /GRANT /ADMINISTRATORS:F /T /C (I added the /c) 4) In windows explorer, right mouse click on folder in question, select PROPERTIES, select SECURITY, select ADVANCED, select OWNER, select EDIT, check REPLACE ALL CHILD OBJECT PERMISSIONS WITH INHERITABLE PERMISSIONS FROM THIS OBJECT, select ADMINISTRATORS, then click OK to all messages, then close. Because the last ICACLS command, for me, still had some file errors, I found that repeating steps 3 and 4 once more fixed the remaining errors. At this point I had access to all the folders and files without error. Thanks,Rob