Resetting Security Permissions on my secondary Partition Local Disk
Hi, I was trying to lock or hide my secondary local disk from a "Standard User" account I've created for my guests, but when I went to the security settings and "Denied" access to "USERS" as in "(MY-PC\Users)" it also locked me out of the drive and to make matters even worse in the middle of applying the settings I get an error message that saids "Access Denied" which means that it only managed to apply the settings to some of the files and folders. Please someone help and quiet frankly rescue me because I have a lot of important files on that disk drive. Thanks
July 13th, 2011 5:03pm

open up a command prompt as an administrator then cd to the drive in question then takeown /F * and wait then try Windows MVP, paid Remote Assistance is available for XP, Vista and Windows 7. My page on Video Card Problems is now my most popular landing page. See my gaming site for game reviews etc. Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews
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July 13th, 2011 10:10pm

open up a command prompt as an administrator then cd to the drive in question then takeown /F * and wait then try Windows MVP, paid Remote Assistance is available for XP, Vista and Windows 7. My page on Video Card Problems is now my most popular landing page. See my gaming site for game reviews etc. Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews Hi, Yeah I've tried that: takeown /F Z:\ /r /d y and it saids access denied. Same when I try to CD to the drive.
July 13th, 2011 11:13pm

hi. i think ive got the same problem, if i want to change anything/install e.t.c. it says enter admin. password, but the area to enter password is grayed out and wont let me type.
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July 14th, 2011 1:50am

Hi, Do you mean you cannot modify the security settings of drive with your guest account? Or with your administrator account? I suggest you boot into Safe Mode to check if you could do this operation. If this issue persists, try to replaces ACLs with default inherited ACLs for all matching files: 1. Open an elevated command prompt, go to the drive: cd /d X: (X represent your problematic drive letter ) 2. Type the following command: icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET You could also refer to the following article: Icacls Alex ZhaoPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
July 17th, 2011 5:44am

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