Second Partition Access Denied

[mhasanbulli]

Hi everyone! I hope the post is in the appropriate section of the forum!

You are about to hear the stupidest thing ever done. I recently formatted my laptop and installed 64-Bits version of my Windows 7 Home Premium copy as I am planning to install more RAMs. Before I had 32-Bits version and I had partitioned the HDD into two so that I install Win 7 into C and I keep my personal files such as pictures, movies, work files, etc. in D. Whenever I installed 64-Bits, I had file permission problems in partition D, obviously. However, I solved that problem and I was able to use my old files except a couple of music folders. When I was trying to get permissions for those too, I removed the permissions to the partition D itself. Now, my partition is not accessible. Diskeeper 2010 is able to see the partition D and it is obvious that files are still there.

I would really appreciate if some one could help to gain permissions to partition D so that I can access the partition and use my files. All of my important files are in partition D.

Thank you very much for your quick reply...

 

[DeaconFrost]

Diskeeper an cause some weird issues, so I wouldn't use it, but that's not really related to this issue at hand. I don't see a need to install a third party defragger anymore, but that's just my opinion.

Anyway, it sounds like what you would want to do is take ownership of the drive. I can only replicate this issue if I switched usernames and/or passwords (which is one reaosn why I use the same combo on my home systems all the time.) I don't have a copy of Home Premium installed at the moment, so there's a chance you may not have the options to take ownership. If that's the case, I'd use a Linux CD or a BartPE CD to copy off the data to an external drive, delete the D partition, and then recreate it and move your data back.

 

[not so gray matter]

I doubt it'll work, but enabling the root Administrative account might let you see and reset the permissions of the drive.

Start > Search "cmd" > Right Click cmd.exe & Run as Admin...
Run Command: net user administrator /active:yes
Log in Using that Account

While you're in there, get a snapshot of your Disk Management window

Start > Run > compmgmt.msc > Disk Management

 

[mhasanbulli]

Thank you very much for the quick replies

@DeaconFrost: I understand your point and I guess using a Live Linux CD and getting all the data would be the best solution.

@notsograymatter: I tried what you said but it does not work

I wish there is an easier way of doing this...

 

[mhasanbulli]

Do you have any other options?

 

[not so gray matter]

Nope, you're going to have to find a way into the disk with a live cd.

Before you do that, post a screen shot of your disk management screen, highlight that partition if you can see it.

 

[mhasanbulli]

Here is a screen-shot of the the Disk Management screen...

 

[mhasanbulli]

I solved the problem with Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. I recovered all of my files and will delete and create the partition again.

Thank you very much for the help.

 

[not so gray matter]

Yeah, I was about to say that it looks like your data is still there, you just deleted the roadmap to it. Glad you figured it out.