Hard drive permission messed up

I accidently changed the permission for my hard drive on Windows 7. I have C:\ and D:\ but after I altered the permisson of my D:\, now the access is denied.
In the drive Properties under the Security tab, I ticked all the Deny boxes of the permission settings.
I think the administrator was denied too. Now when I check the drive Properties, there is no Security tab. How can I change back the permission as all my documents are in it. Access are denied completely and I need help. Please!

Try this:
Context Menu - Take Ownership - Vista Forums
Take Ownership Shortcut

Once you take ownership of the drive (which will only work if you have "owner/creator" NOT Denied".
You'll add the "Everyone" group to the permissions/security tab with FULL CONTROL...

Remove the "Deny" checks - they aren't needed for drive security

do you have multiple user accounts enabled? Do you remember if you had explicitly 'denied' access to an "Admin" account?

brady said:

do you have multiple user accounts enabled? Do you remember if you had explicitly 'denied' access to an "Admin" account?

If I remember correctly I went under the security tab edited users group and denied all there.. I left all other groups intact.

could you take a screen shot of your security tab? If you denied to Admins... Create a new "Standard User" account and try it that way.





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I seriously mucked up permissions -can't access C: