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Resetting NTFS les security and permission in Windows

UPDATE:

I have released a new graphical user interface utility to reset the les permissions. Try it out.

I was running Vista with two NTFS partitions (C: and D:), then formatted C: partition and installed Windows 7 RC. The
second partition (D:) had some les security set on les and folders. After Win 7 was installed, some les on drive D:
were not accessible anymore and I was getting Access Denied I tried to right-click/properties on the folders that were
not accessible and changed their owner and changed permissions but still some folders were still inaccessible not
matter what I did. After some research, it turned out the tool cacls that allows one to display or change ACLs (access
control lists) can help to reset ACLs. In Windows 7 it is called icalcs. To reset les permissions: 1. Run cmd as
Administrator 2. Go to the drive or folder in question, for example:

CD /D D:

3. To reset all the les permissions, type:

icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET

4. And thats it! After that, the les permissions were reset and I could access them back again. Update:

It is possible that icacls might fail. For that try to take ownership of the les rst. Just before Step (3), please type the
following command: takeown /R /F *

cacls is a handy tool to change permissions of les en masse. Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754

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