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[ljames]

Hi, everybody; I'm a newbie at this, so please bear with me. I am trying to recover some files from a "degraded raid 1 (mirror) volume" (both drives show as degraded on bootup) belonging to a friend who never made a backup. I have created a VistaPE boot disk using Winbuilder080. When I boot the system with VistaPE and open the cmd shell, I can bring up the directory of the c:\ drive and c:\users; I can also see the directory of a Seagate external drive that I am trying to recover the files to. When I use the copy command to copy the files in any one of the user folders, all I get is "access denied" for each of the files and nothing gets copied. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I need to do to recover these files? Thanks for any help you can give me.

[amalux]

Hi ljames

Try:

takeown /f <foldername> /r /d y

icacls <foldername> /grant administrators&#58;F /t

or run both from batch:

takeown /f %1 /r /d y

icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t

batch <directory>

Hope it helps