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Hello,
After I restored my W7 I lost the administrator permissions of a few folders (Boot, Windows, Program Files, …). I tried to restore the permissions but w/o success.
I backup-ed and restored my HDD with Acronis Home 11 bootable CD.
Please, help me.
Thanks,
Marius

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dsperate wrote:

Hello,
After I restored my W7 I lost the administrator permissions of a few folders (Boot, Windows, Program Files, …). I tried to restore the permissions but w/o success.
I backup-ed and restored my HDD with Acronis Home 11 bootable CD.
Please, help me.
Thanks,
Marius

I am having a similar issue.

Occasionally I like to wipe the drives on Windows PCs, and start over with a fresh installation. I use ATI Home 2011 to back up, then mount an image as a virtual drive. Then when I do the reformat and reinstallation of Windows, I can copy over files I need from the old image.

But this time I am having a permissions problem. Even though I am logged in as admin, I cannot access Documents and Settings.

I am running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

I try to right click from Windows Explorer on Documents and Settings, select Properties, Sharing, and I click on the Share button. Under File Sharing under Choose People to Share with I select myself (admin) or SYSTEM, click Share, then after a message saying "this will take a few minutes", it says "Your folder cannot be shared". There is a More Information link, I click on that, and it says "You don't have permission to share or stop sharing this folder". But as Admin, didn't I just grant myself permission?

If I select the Security tab under Properties, it says "To change permissions, click Edit". When I do that, under Permissions for Admins there are checkboxes for Allow and Deny. But there is no way to put any checks into the checkboxes.

If I right-click on the folder and instead of Properties select Share with, I get the same message, "You don't have permission to share or stop sharing this folder".

So because of all this, I decided to share all of my original drive that I am backing up from, then do an incremental backup, so that the original disk will be shareable. But I have the same issues. I cannot access Documents and Settings from the mounted image.

Any ideas?

this may help
http://kb.acronis.com/content/1520

also, you might want to user the search option at the top of this webpage and search for
Permissions
and check the article item for publish by Acronis.

Thanks! Finally figured this out. Had forgotten that in Windows 7, the c:\Documents and Settings\ folder isn't really a folder at all. It is a sort of placeholder (Junction Point) so that older programs can be installed (I think). Everything I needed was under c:\Users\

One explanation is here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/how-op…