security permissions needed to access files

[netpotechani]

Good morning all, please i have this problem wid my laptop, i deleted one of my account that i used microsoft to sign in and i have not seen where it kept the user files of that account and i also set security permissions on most of my files through that account so now that the account is no more, it is requesting me to obtain permission from that account, each time i want to copy, move or delete a file. Please what do i do ?

 

[ShoTTaS]

Hi netpotechani, Welcome to SevenForums

First, i would like to know if you can right click cmd, then run as administrator on your current account.

 

[netpotechani]

Yes i can do it,

 

[ShoTTaS]

okay, i would like you to this:

type this command on the cmd, run as administrator.

net user administrator /active:yes

restart your computer after

 

[ShoTTaS]

If that works, you can see an administrator account after you reboot,
Log-in to administrator account then give permission or make your current account administrator.

 

[netpotechani]

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it is not working, i have done that before and it didn't work
Sir, let me explain this thing well for you, i set security permissions on my harddisk so that someone might not be able to access my informations, on that fateful day i had a flat battery and a friend came looking for a file from my computer so i removed my internal hard disk and then put it in another it booted fine but i was unable to access my files cos of the permissions set on the hdd, when i put it back on my computer it booted fine also but this time around the start screen did not show, it was black and empty while the built-in administrator showed the start screen well but most of my files didn't show at all, i had to delete d microsoft account i was using before and now use the build-in administrator account to create another microsoft account.
So now if i want to access any file or copy, move or delete any file affected with the permissions it will request permission from that account that i deleted, n i cant format my computer cos i will lose alot of informations that i cant get anymore.
Please help me out, i have tried all wat i knw wid thing machine and it is not working

 

[mike009]

Hi, have you tried Windows 8 Forums , can you recreated the "Ani Emah" Microsoft account on this computer?

 

[Pyprohly]

Hey Netpotechani,

Attached is a batch script that will set those pesky permissions straight... and help re-claim what was once yours !

Preview:

@echo off
net session >NUL 2>&1|| powershell Start-Process '%0' -Verb RunAs&& exit /b|| exit /b
pushd "%~dp0"
:select
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('
powershell "((new-object -com 'Shell.Application').BrowseForFolder(0,'Select a folder to gain access to',1,17)).Self.Path"
') do set selected_dir="%%I"
if "%SELECTED_DIR:"=%"=="" exit /b 1
if "%SELECTED_DIR:"=%"=="::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" goto :select
echo.& echo Are you sure you want to reset and recover access to
echo  %SELECTED_DIR:"=%
echo by taking ownership and assigning full control of this directory and all its 
echo sub-directories and files to the current user?
echo.
choice
if errorlevel 2 exit /b 0& cls
takeown /f %SELECTED_DIR% /r
icacls %SELECTED_DIR% /reset /t /c
icacls %SELECTED_DIR% /grant:r "%USERNAME%":f
echo.& echo Success.
popd& timeout 2 >NUL