When I click on properties of a folder I need to take ownership of the security tab doesn't even appear. It only appears on folders that aren't a problem.
Yes, I did try starting at the parent folder and selecting to propagate to subfolers. All I get is "not accessible" errors on any such subfolers.
Yes I ran scandisk (from the desktop and from the repair console).
Either Vista has changed something or this filesystem is munged beyond hope of recovery.
Incidentally, I sometimes get "Folder not accessible, may have been moved or deleted" errors as well as "Access Denied" - but what does that mean? Even Bill Gates admitted Windows error messages are next to meaningless.
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Edited by Andrew Grygus
April 19, 2007, 11:23:17 PM EDT
Well, it saved a lot of time setting up NTFS-3g . . .
. . but no luck. The "\\Documents and Settings" structure is still empty and the critical directories in the "\\Users" structure still show 0 files. Files cannot be created in or copied to those directories.
I read the NTFS-3g FAQ and found no reference to not being able to see any files that were actually there - so I suspect the filesystem on this disk is just munged beyond hope.
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Set up a teenage girl with something other than what's in fashion with her pals? She'd be ridiculed, ostracized, banished and banned - and talked about in hushed tones behind her back. She'd be deeply scarred for life (and might actually amount to something) - no, I can't take that responsibility.