Win7 Security Has Stolen My Data!

[powder21]

I am currently at a point of frustration with Microsoft that I am about to explode!

I recently copied the entire contents of a thumbdrive to my desktop for safe keeping while I was using the drive for something else. I later (about 10 or 20 minutes later) copied the contents back over to the drive. Everything worked except for one file which Windows has apparently taken control of and now says that I require permission from myself to do anything with it. I tried disabling UAC which did absolutely nothing to correct the issue. According to Windows, I do not have permission to view, run, rename, copy, or delete the file. I also do not have permission to view or edit it's properties and when I try to take ownership of the file it tells me "Access Denied!".

I am the only user of this computer and have full administrative rights. This file contains EXTREMELY important data and Microsoft has no right whatsoever to tell me what I can and can't do with my own files. Somebody PLEASE tell me of any way that I can fix this. This is utterly ridiculous.

P.S. Already tried using the built-in Admin account with all the same issues.

 

[FuturDreamz]

you might have to log in as administrator and change the permissions... forget how sorry.

 

[Barman58]

No idea why this would happen to only one file but the first thing to try is to enable the Hidden Administrator account and try taking ownership & resetting the file permissions for the file

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html

 

[powder21]

Nope, the built in administrator account gets all of the same errors. Sorry, forgot to mention that I tried that already.

 

[TimStitt]

See if this helps

1. Open an elevated command prompt as follows.....
- Type CMD in the windows search box , CMD will appear above
- Left Click on it and select Run as Administrator
- You should now have the black cmd window open

2. Type ATTRIB -R -S -H /D /S "C:\path\to\your\folder"
(change the path\to\your\folder to match of course)
- Press enter to complete

Good luck!

 

[powder21]

TimStitt: It just tells me access denied

 

[Uber Philf]

Is the file that's locked, was it created on your machine?

The one having trouble copying it?

 

[powder21]

Uber: Now that you mention it, no I don't think it was. I believe it was created on my old XP system

 

[Tews]

Try booting into safe mode, take ownership of the file then copy it back to your flash drive...

 

[powder21]

I'll try that right now. If the fact that it was created on another system is the problem, then I don't understand why it didn't do for the other files that were created on other systems. Weird. I'll post back in a few minutes.

 

[TimStitt]

Try booting into safe mode, take ownership of the file then copy it back to your flash drive...

Exactly what I was going to say.

1. Safe mode - to unlock any locks it might have
2. Take ownership
3. Change permissions to ensure that the owner (now you) has all
4. Run attrib

Lastly: If this fails, run checkdisk on the drive and repeat.

Good Luck!

 

[powder21]

Ha! Safe Mode let me do whatever I wanted with it. I cannot believe that it never occurred to me (nor would it have) to try that. Thanks so much Tews And thanks to everyone else as well

 

[Tews]

Glad you were able to sort it out...

 

[TimStitt]

Glad you were able to sort it out...

Agreed!