Hard Drive Access problem

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Wood Head

I am using Windows 2000. I tried to refuse "everyone" to
access my C: by right click on C: and select "property". I
changed the security setting so that "everyone" can not
access C:. Then I tried rebooting my PC and of course it
failed. How can I make C: accessible without lossing data
on C:?

I tried to install my "unaccessible" hard drive as
a "primary slave" hard drive into another PC running
Windows 2000. But Windows 2000 does not show any sign of
this installed "primary slave" hard drive. (I think
my "unaccessible" hard drive was correctly installed as
a "primary slave" hard drive. The original hard drive is
the "primary master" drive and it works well with Windows
2000). Am I on the right track in solving this problem?
Any other solutions?

Please also send your solutions to my email
(e-mail address removed).

Your help will be very much appreciated!!!

Wood Head
 
You should be able to install it as a second hard drive in another W2K system.
You may have to configure the jumpers on the drives to be appropriate as to
master or slave or better yet cable select. You should see both drives
recognized during computer boot up if they are configured correctly. Another
thing to try is an upgrade install as described in KB link below by booting from
the install cd. If that works, you will have to go to Windows Update to reapply
service pack and critical updates when done, preferably with a firewall
installed at your cable/dsl router or a personal one on your computer first.
Worst case, you will have to reinstall new operating system, but you still can
do that to the existing \winnt folder that should be detected during install
without reformatting your drive. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=292175
 
Steve:

Thanks for the help. I tried installing the unaccessible
hard disk into a working W2K PC. Then I rebooted the PC.
During booting, PC showed the hard drive info twice.

The first show says there are two hard drives: Primary
Master drive (the working HD) and the Primary Slave drive
(my unaccessible HD).

The second show is in a table. It only shows that the PC
has a primary HD. For the Primary Slave HD, it
shows "None".

I also tried re-installing W2K on my unaccessible HD.
Setup shows my original C:\Winnt. During file copying
Setup says that some files can not be installed. So when I
tried rebooting, PC says a file named NTLDR(?) is missing,
which is one of the files that failed to install into the
PC. So it does not work.

Wood Head
 
Interesting that it is detected in the first window as slave, but not in second
window. Try installing it as a secondary primary on the other controller [after
changing jumpers] and make sure that the IDE settings are set at "auto" in cmos
settings. You will have to try reinstalling again into the \winnt folder and
hopefully the files will copy this time. If it fails three times in a row, then you
have some other problem probably with hardware. Possibly the hard drive is going bad,
but I have seen errors like you have from bad ram, flaky power supply, and an
overheating cpu due to the fan/heatsink being clogged with crud. If you have an used
partition on your hard drive, you could try formatting it and installing a second
copy of W2K in what would be called a parallel installation to try to access your
files.--- Steve
 
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