Arrrggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

okay...so grandma come to town downloads all of her email with attachements and tower goes to the place of infected Piece of crap H*ll.. I do the non destructive re install of xp home edition and its up and running..but now EVERY file is locked and has NO volume....so I spend hours this morning going thru the most helpful boards and find out about the F8 key and starting in the safe mode..and trying to take ownership..but I cannot get the ADMINISTRATOR
prompt to log on..it just sits there...soooo NOW WHAT???
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP..
:cryI have three years of my daughters pictures on there and pics of my deceased father and mother...is there anyway to pull the files and save them?:cry

 

and all of the files are showing 0 volume as far as information..folders are all there, but no pics..please HELP

 

What do you mean it just sits there? You mean that when you logon as Administrator, it hangs at logging on, and never pulls the desktop up?

Does your normal user account (not the Administrator account) have administrator privileges? I hope so. If so, you can take ownership with that account (you do still have to boot into safe mode in order to do this, though)... you don't need THE "Administrator" account to take ownership of files.

Here's Microsoft's article on the subject:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

To make it easiest, if most or all of your files and folders are contained in one folder (i.e. your old user account profile folder), I suggest taking ownership of that folder, and making sure the ownership changes apply to all subfolders and etc... should be simpler that way.

Also, the reason none of the files or folders have any volume is because Windows, by default, doesn't list ANY information for files and folders to a user account that doesn't have access to them.

 

okay followed the direction and still have zero in all folders and it shows that I am the owner....do I have to own the 8 admin folders too?

 

okay I own all the admin folders too..and still no volume....do I have to own every subfolder to..is there as short cute for this??HELP...been at this all day and most of the night

 

also now I'm getting a low disk space warning

 

Did you see the pictures when you where in Safe Mode?

 

nope cant access them there either..this is driving me crazy

 

Try this
Reboot in Safe Mode, right click on the file you need to access, click Tools/Folder Options/View... Click Advanced/Owner tab. Click your user name or administrator if logged on as administrators group and select "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" check box. Click Yes when prompted and OK

 

okay, did that but still cant see the file guess i gotta reboot?

 

Did you try to boot with a dos disk and copy (not Move) them to another folder

 

Booting to a DOS environment (for example the recovery console) and moving the files to a different, neutral location is a good idea. If that doesn't work, boot to a 'live' CD like a BartsPE CD or Knoppix or the UBCD4Win (the BEST live CD I have ever used!). This will allow you complete unfettered access to the files/folder regardless of ownership. You may need to track down an older release of the UBCD4Win as the newer ones sometimes have problems with file ownership and you may not be able to access the files/folders.
UBCD4Win http://majorgeeks.com/UBCD4Win_d5710.html
How-To-Build the UBCD4Win http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm
Knoppix v5.1.1(live Linux CD; 690mb .iso CD image file) http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
Boot to one of the live CDs and be sure you have an external drive plugged in for back ups, or if you have 2 CD drives, boot with the one that is NOT a burner so you can burn your stuff to a CD.

Good luck!