Comments on: File Access Denied on Windows XP and how to take ownership

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:35:28 +0000

I have a problem like this, but at Windows 2003 where the server do not give me the ownership… and did the CHKDSK /F, but still not doing it… the Admin cannot get the file security info… so, if a Admin cannot, who can?

By: 8 Foot Trampoline

8 Foot Trampoline — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been looking for a solution for this problem for ages. :) finally deleted those pesky folders that have random strings!

Thank you!

By: Ianz

Ianz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:16:56 +0000

This is brilliant, simple easy and it works, thanks to poster.

By: Ken Cook

Ken Cook — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:52:12 +0000

I have been,for hours, scouring the Microsoft site in an attempt to solve this problem, the google search too. By a lucky hid I got to this site and article and in 2 minutes solved the problem. Why in the Hell didn’t include XP Home in it’s fixes I’ll never know. Thanks again.
Ken Cook

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:50:11 +0000

I have a weird solution, so I am writing this is the hope that it will be useful so somebody. The solution described above did not work for me because when I right click the folder and choose “properties” there isn’t a “Security Tab”. This may be because I am not using “simple file sharing”. I have tried many things suggested on various web pages all to no avail. My problem is that I accidentally dragged and dropped one of my data folders to a folder with a really long gobbledegook name – this is probably some kind of system folder. Although I could see my data folder I could not open it or drag it back again to where it should be. I discovered by trial and error that any file/folder that I dragged and dropped to this particular place became similarly inaccessible. But I did finally stumble of a solution that worked!!! I created a new folder in the root of my C: drive and copied the gobbledegook folder to my new folder lock, stock and barrel, and bingo, all of my locked folders became accessible again – so I copied them back to where they should have been. I then copied the gobbledegook folder back to where it came from.

By: JMGL

JMGL — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:05:52 +0000

ooooooo thanks a lot

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:03:21 +0000

GREAT< After all the crap suggestions I found and tried it was a breath of fresh air to find this and have it work.

Next I must fix the no disk issue.

Thanks

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:54:07 +0000

Wow! Whew! It worked perfectly. THANK YOU!!

By: PArth Thacker

PArth Thacker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:26:29 +0000

in the sharing network, the administrator has blocked certain privileges, i can have a look at those fils but i cant copy them nor open them.
it says access denied.
any solution guys?

By: D.Prabhu

D.Prabhu — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:47:27 +0000

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