Solved Very strange issue.

[RhapsodyOfFire]

I have two HDD attached to my PC.
Here is my HDD with my C:\Documents and settings\Momchil folder which is my user name on the computer.

And here is the exact same folder and directory in the other HDD G:\ which I NEVER attached to my computer!!! NEVER!

I don't have a reason to lie you and copy all my user system files to the other HDD. What we have here is some very strange bug of some kind. G\D&S is actually C\D&S... But why it seems like it is all in the other HDD I don't know...

The D&S folders had Deny to read rule applied to Everyone.

 

[agent47er]

are you sure you have NEVER put that disk before???? also... it may be pausible that you have a RAID 1 setup mirrored all your data onto the other hard drive....
just a remote possibility..... :-?

 

[RhapsodyOfFire]

I've never used raid on my computer and I also saw these same folders on at least one another hard disk drive. I think this happens when both hdd use windows 7. But after connecting the new hdd my pc doesn't have time even to copy this 4-5 gb of information or even more counting the other folders. They are literally located only in C but on the other drive (not mine) this seems like a shortcut with fake destination...

 

[MacGyvr]

Please provide a screenshot of your Disk Management configuration.

 

[RhapsodyOfFire]

Here it is

 

[logicearth]

I can tell you why. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE to have access to "Documents and Settings" it is NOT a folder. There is a very good reason why all of the Junctions used for compatibility give an "Access Denied" message.

Why...why is this so hard to grasp?! I feel like a broken record.

 

[RhapsodyOfFire]

And what is it if not a folder? I know it points to the folder Users and shows it content but this happened in Vista and/or Windows 7! It wasn't featured in XP. Why it shows my users folder with the letter G then if there is already a folder with that name in G drive and it has different FILES/FOLDERS. In XP also Documents and Settings is a folder where the Users folder is located!

 

[logicearth]

IT IS A JUNCTION, that points to C:\Users. Do you understand? The path is hardcoded in the Junction. It wasn't featured in Windows XP because Windows XP didn't use C:\Users it used C:\Documents and Settings to store user profile and user data. In Windows Vista and 7, Documents and Settings is only there to fix broken applications.

Furthermore, Windows Vista/7 are and will never be Windows XP, thank god.

 

[agent47er]

crap/// its a trojan.... i have had this kind of trojan before...
it looks like a foldar cause it has the icon but in actual it is a trojan with a .exe extention that opens the windows explorer and sends information off the internet....
just to confirm this run command prompt
type :
g:\ ENTER
dir/w ENTER
see if the folder (what u think is a folder) comes up as an exe file... if it does then its ok... else post a screen shot for both g and c drives here...

 

[GEWB]

EDIT: my original reply may be inaccurate - deleted

Regards,
GEWB

 

[gregrocker]

As stated Docs and Settings in Win7 is only an enabling junction point. Just ignore it. If you're worried about infection run a full Malwarebytes scan monthly.

It appears Win7 is booting off of C now which holds the System Active flag.

This means that even though the Win7 System Reserved boot partition was issued at install, it is no longer functioning to boot Win7 on its own because the System flag has been removed from it and placed on C somehow.

If you remove the XP HD, you would need to make sure in Disk Mgmt that System REserved is still marked Active, then boot the Win7 DVD Repair Console or REpair CD to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots to write the System boot files back to the System Reserved partition.

Once both HD's have System Active boot files on them, you can boot either by setting the preferred one first to boot in BIOS setup, then if you want to boot the other use the Dell F12 one-time BIOS Boot Menu key.

System Reserved should also not have a drive letter so that nothing tries to write to and corrupt it. You can remove the F in Disk Mgmt.

 

[MacGyvr]

I can tell you why. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE to have access to "Documents and Settings" it is NOT a folder. There is a very good reason why all of the Junctions used for compatibility give an "Access Denied" message.

Why...why is this so hard to grasp?! I feel like a broken record.

You are correct on the D&S stuff, and I'm surprised I didn't catch it, BUT that doesn't explain the crossover between two completely different drive letters. That doesn't have anything to do with the junction point.

 

[logicearth]

You are correct on the D&S stuff, and I'm surprised I didn't catch it, BUT that doesn't explain the crossover between two completely different drive letters. That doesn't have anything to do with the junction point.

Actually it does. The Junction is an absolute path to C:\Users. Junctions use an absolute path, not relative which can be done with Symlinks. So even tho it is on another drive it will still point to C:\Users. Thus you get the above.

 

[MacGyvr]

How did it get on the second drive?

 

[logicearth]

Obviously Drive G is from a different Windows 7 computer.

 

[RhapsodyOfFire]

You are correct on the D&S stuff, and I'm surprised I didn't catch it, BUT that doesn't explain the crossover between two completely different drive letters. That doesn't have anything to do with the junction point.

Actually it does. The Junction is an absolute path to C:\Users. Junctions use an absolute path, not relative which can be done with Symlinks. So even tho it is on another drive it will still point to C:\Users. Thus you get the above.

The last thing hard to comprehend is why it shows the junction being in drive G and the folder of my user profile Momchil inside being in G not in C where it really is.

 

[gregrocker]

Because junction points are used in Win7 for compatibiity when interacting with XP file system.

Is this an active Dual Boot XP and Win7? Did you read my comments above about the repairs which will be necessary to remove XP because Win7's boot files were placed on the XP partition?