I have a folder I need to access but I get Access Denied

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Steve

I just recently went through the torture of having to
reload my os. I had a user called owner where the files
were under Doc & Setting/Owner The folder is still there
after installing the OS but I get access denied on that
folder. I tried to go to sharing and security but the
first box is unhighlighted and the second box no matter
what I check does not change anything about getting
access. How do I get access to this folder? I have
administrator rights and am totally lost here. The
reason for the need of access is that I am hoping my
daugthers course work and white papers are there but
until I can access I dont know.

Please advise
 
I tried the take ownership that didnt work, I checked the
simple file sharing, it was already checked. Still cant
access the file. Any other ideas?
 
Hi Steve,

Uncheck Simple File sharing to see the Security tab. Take ownership. For XP
Home, boot into safe mode and login as Administrator in order to see the
Security tab. Follow what Doug Knox said.

Or, use the calcs.exe command line and reset the permissions.

The following comand line paramenter will change the ACLs of all files and
directories on drive C to allow full control for the Administrators local
group:

cacls c:\ /t /e /g Administrators:f

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I tried the take ownership that didnt work, I checked the
simple file sharing, it was already checked. Still cant
access the file. Any other ideas?
 
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