I Screwed Up!

poepoevan · 07-13-2008, 07:38 PM

Hi,

Wondering if I could get some advice please. I seem to have messed something up on my laptop. I was trying to make sure that someone special couldn't see some more private files that I was keeping on my laptop. So I went about restricting access to some of the folders on my PC. I was talking on the phone at the same time and I think I accidantly did the same on one of my drives - and I can't seem to access it now - in fact, it appears as though it's now 'hidden.'

I've tried to change my settings in 'displaying hidden folders/files,' but that doesn't seem to help.

Could anyone out there help me with some info on how I can 'restrict' and/or unhide this drive?

Many thanks!

Fidoliedo · 07-15-2008, 11:52 PM

If you were able to delegate rights, you may have removed all the rights from the drive disallowing access. If you can see the drive, right click on it and go to sharing and security. In that window, click on the security tab. If there are no users in the GROUPS window, you can click on ADD and add the administrators group to the folder and click apply.

If you can't add a user, then click on ADVANCE, click on OWNER, highlight ADMINISTRATORS, check REPLACE OWNER ON SUBCONTAINERS AND OBJECTS, and click APPLY.

If you can't even see the drive or there's no drive letter, make sure the system see's the drive by going to COMPUTER MANAGER, DISK MANAGEMENT. If the drive is there but with no drive letter, right click on the colored box to the immediate right of the drive and select CHANGE DRIVE LETTER AND PATHS. Select an unused drive letter and you should be good. If the drive is there and says UNALLOCATED, you just dumped the partition. Don't panic, get a program called FILE SCAVENGER 3.x and that will do a wonderful job of restoring that drive. I can't go into details about that program, but you will need to restore to another HD as to not overwrite those files on the dumped drive. The program is fairly cheap and so worth the price.

^shadow^ · 07-17-2008, 12:53 PM

you may also type c$ this will display the driver (on the address bar of couse)

07-13-2008, 07:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
poepoevan Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	I Screwed Up! Hi, Wondering if I could get some advice please. I seem to have messed something up on my laptop. I was trying to make sure that someone special couldn't see some more private files that I was keeping on my laptop. So I went about restricting access to some of the folders on my PC. I was talking on the phone at the same time and I think I accidantly did the same on one of my drives - and I can't seem to access it now - in fact, it appears as though it's now 'hidden.' I've tried to change my settings in 'displaying hidden folders/files,' but that doesn't seem to help. Could anyone out there help me with some info on how I can 'restrict' and/or unhide this drive? Many thanks!

07-15-2008, 11:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
Fidoliedo Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 16 OS: Windows XP	Re: I Screwed Up! If you were able to delegate rights, you may have removed all the rights from the drive disallowing access. If you can see the drive, right click on it and go to sharing and security. In that window, click on the security tab. If there are no users in the GROUPS window, you can click on ADD and add the administrators group to the folder and click apply. If you can't add a user, then click on ADVANCE, click on OWNER, highlight ADMINISTRATORS, check REPLACE OWNER ON SUBCONTAINERS AND OBJECTS, and click APPLY. If you can't even see the drive or there's no drive letter, make sure the system see's the drive by going to COMPUTER MANAGER, DISK MANAGEMENT. If the drive is there but with no drive letter, right click on the colored box to the immediate right of the drive and select CHANGE DRIVE LETTER AND PATHS. Select an unused drive letter and you should be good. If the drive is there and says UNALLOCATED, you just dumped the partition. Don't panic, get a program called FILE SCAVENGER 3.x and that will do a wonderful job of restoring that drive. I can't go into details about that program, but you will need to restore to another HD as to not overwrite those files on the dumped drive. The program is fairly cheap and so worth the price.

07-17-2008, 12:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
^shadow^ Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1 OS: linux, w2000,w2003,xp,vista	Re: I Screwed Up! you may also type c$ this will display the driver (on the address bar of couse)