Need help with XP permissions! Corrupt Drive!

[exodus454]

Well, the other day i was transferring about 10gb of files, and the cleaning lady plugs the vacuum in and blows the breaker. fvcking cleaning ladies!

But anyway. Now I have a corrupt drive, and through various other measures I can view all the files on the drive when plugged in as a slave on another PC (it started off as not even being able to view the drive without getting "this drive is unformatted")

Now, the only problem I've got is with My Documents.

I plan on copying all the data off the corrupt drive and onto an external, then reformatting. But, since My Documents was "secured" or whatever they call it, I'm having to go through every single file in there and take ownership, then add the administrator to the permissions of every fvcking file in that folder.

Is there an easier way to do this, perhaps a way to change permissions in batch?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

 

[exodus454]

anyone? (sorry to bump the thread so soon, its a bit critical at the moment though..)

 

[stash]

Uh, if you take ownership of the parent My Docs folder, it should propagate down. You can also check the box on the advanced screen that overwrites the permissions on all sub folders and files.

When you say the files were secured, are you talking about NTFS permissions, or EFS? If it is EFS, you are SOL without the private key.

 

[Abzstrak]

yea, im betting its EFS, and hes screwed then... unless its on a domain, is it on a domain?