DACL from root of C is gone?

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I have a user who can not get to any of the files on the root of his NTFS drive, drive C. The local and domain admins can not get to the root of C either. I can get to the contents of the folders, but not the root. The users states that they did not play with any security settings at all. Any ideas as to how I can get to the root of the C drive if all the users and groups have been removed from the root of C? None of our users are local administrators.
 
Did you look at the security setting on the root? As local
admin, you should be able to take ownership if you don't
have it, and reset the permissions.
-----Original Message-----
I have a user who can not get to any of the files on the
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root of his NTFS drive, drive C. The local and domain
admins can not get to the root of C either. I can get to
the contents of the folders, but not the root. The users
states that they did not play with any security settings
at all. Any ideas as to how I can get to the root of the C
drive if all the users and groups have been removed from
the root of C? None of our users are local administrators.
 
While logged as administrator, add yourself and the necessary users to the
permissions page. You may need to take ownership, which you can do without actually
being able to read data in that folder. Generally administrators and system have full
control and users have read/list/execute. I would also run a disk check and a virus
scan on that computer. Also check the folder properties to see if somehow it became
encrypted or use the cipher command. If nothing seems to work, try using the secedit
command as shown in KB link to reset ntfs permissions.
--- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 --- Same for XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=266118

GregoryT said:
I have a user who can not get to any of the files on the root of his NTFS drive,
Click to expand...
drive C. The local and domain admins can not get to the root of C either. I can get
to the contents of the folders, but not the root. The users states that they did not
play with any security settings at all. Any ideas as to how I can get to the root of
the C drive if all the users and groups have been removed from the root of C? None of
our users are local administrators.
 
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