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format gone horribly wrong

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  • 01-05-2004 9:42pm
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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭


    ok i have two drives on my computer

    raptor 36gig houses Win xp pro

    120gig ibm drive

    i used the 120gig to store everything on the format and i redirected my "my doc's" folder to be housed on the D:\ IBM drive.

    (by using right click my doc's icon properties "Target")

    now after formatting the C:\ drive windows xp install

    it says that the my documents on the D:\ is write protected and acess is denied??

    i looked at the properties of the file and it says 0bytes so i guess the data is lost. (i can live with it)

    but how do i delete the "my doc's folder on the D:\ drive so i can start a start "My doc's" on it


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    nm i fixed it

    thank god for safe mode


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    hostyle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭hostyle


    why not post what went wrong / what you did to fix it for others future reference?


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    k here it goes

    boot into safe mode (F8 while starting up)

    >>log in as administrator

    >>located the my documents folder.

    >>rightclicked and selected properties

    >>security tab

    >>advanced

    and from there u can set what users have access to the files


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