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voidmain:
Good post penrod but you're going to get flamed on the file permissions thing. File permissions existed on WinNT 3.5-4.0 and Win2000 using NTFS filsystems. But they certainly didn't do a good job of implementing it.
<Zombie9920>:
Don't get me started on file permissions. BAck when I was running Win2K I had all of my MP3s, important documents, pics, etc. password protected. I was ignorant and I didn't have any AV software on the system because I thought I would never need it. Anyhow, I got an E-Mail worm that screwed up my boot sector and I had to do a repair install of Win2K after I cleaned the virus from the boot sector. When I finished installing Win2K again I was locked out of every file I had protected because I was setup with a new hostname number. No matter what I did I couldn't get back into my files, I couldn't delete the files or anything. So I eventually did a low level format on my hard drive and started with a clean slate. I lost over 40gig worth of stuff because of NTFS file security. :(
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by <Zombie9920>:
Don't get me started on file permissions. BAck when I was running Win2K I had all of my MP3s, important documents, pics, etc. password protected. I was ignorant and I didn't have any AV software on the system because I thought I would never need it. Anyhow, I got an E-Mail worm that screwed up my boot sector and I had to do a repair install of Win2K after I cleaned the virus from the boot sector. When I finished installing Win2K again I was locked out of every file I had protected because I was setup with a new hostname number. No matter what I did I couldn't get back into my files, I couldn't delete the files or anything. So I eventually did a low level format on my hard drive and started with a clean slate. I lost over 40gig worth of stuff because of NTFS file security. :(
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Again, I don't want to defend microsoft because they suck but... What do you mean you password protected your files? I assume you mean you set the file permissions so that only you could read them and when you reinstalled the OS your SID changed in the SAM. Did you try and "take ownership" on all the directories that denied you access? And then recursively set the permissions to "Everyone:FullControl"? If you used NTFS you should have had no problem recovering them (unless of course the drive was more damaged than you say).
Hell, I can pull a drive out of any NT server or workstation and plug it into any other running system as a secondary drive and get at anything I want. As long as you are logged in as administrator you can take ownership of everything and then change the permissions. I never did use Win2k much so maybe they incorporated filesystem encryption which required a passphrase? I can't imagine I would have missed that one.
[ December 17, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
<Zombie9920>:
I tried everything, I tried to take full ownership, etc.
It simply would not let me into the files because the number I was given after my name didn't match the number that was used to encrypt the files. I even tried to change the numbers in the administrator account to match the ones I was originally using and it still didn't work. I was basically screwed. It really pissed me off badly. I still use NTFS but I learned a lesson, before doing a re-installation/repair installation of Win2K make sure you remove the file permissions and I also learned not to use Outlook Express as an E-Mail client because it automatically opens messages when they are highlighted. Now I always use AV software(and I update Virus Definitions regularly) and I use Outlook 2002(comes with Office XP) as an E-Mail client because it doesn't open a message until you double click it. I don't use Win2K anymore(I use Windows XP Coroporate Edition) but I'm sure that the same file lock out fiasco could happen in XP.
<Zombie9920>:
Typo ~ Coroporate = Corporate.
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