First of all, I'm sorry to have to post in english, but I received this site address from a dutch friend, and I don't know any Dutch. Second of all, please try to help me, as I am getting more and more desperate by the minute. Third of all, well, although this may sound a little vulgar, get ready for one helluva loooooong post. Ok, here goes.
I recently got infected with the Blaster worm, but I was very lucky to get the correction patch and the removal tool from Symantec within the first 24 hours of infection. Nonetheless, a little ignorance on my side lead me to think that the worm had somehow damaged the Task Manager window, because all I'd see was a list of the processes being run (a friend of mine told me later that I just had to double click on it to give it back its old appearance). Since my ignorance lead me to think this, and I couldn't think of any other way to fix this "problem" I decided to reinstall Windows over the old installation my computer already had. When I was installing though, I stupidly chose to make a fresh new installation instead an upgrade (which could have probably solved my "problem"). The thing is, since I'm the actual owner of the PC I'm typing this on right now, my account was labeled by WinXP as Owner in the Documents and Settings folder, instead of DominicanZero, which is the logon name I chose in the first place. But since this PC is also used by everyone here, and I keep very important files in it, and my little brother knows how to tamper among folders to get anywhere on a PC running Windows and also likes screwing around with my stuff, I decided to take advantage of WinXP's security policies, and blocked all access to my user folders from literally ANY user, except for the Owner himself. (NOTE: I disabled the "Simple File Sharing" option in the Folder Options menu to enable the more serious security protocols and policies.) Now here comes the REAL problem: When I made the new installation, the system didn't ask me to create an Owner account. Thus, all my folders and files are now locked in the Owner folder. I know they're there, since I allowed the Administrators and Power Users groups to be able to read and list the files, but not to execute them. Even if I log on as an Administrator, I still can't access my files, and when I right click on them, and I choose the Security tab, and this is what shows up:
http://d-zero4.tripod.com/images/properties.txt
(Although it's named as a TXT, that link points to an image, but I had to rename it because Tripod's free service doesn't allow remote linking.)
As you can see, the security policies I applied before the new installation appear as Accounts Unknown. Now here's my question:
1. Can anybody suggest me a method of getting to those files, at least to transfer them to another hard drive?
2. If not, can somebody suggest a way of reactivating the Owner account?
3. Finally, if nothing else, can somebody tell me how to decrypt the information shown as Accounts Unknown in the Security tab so I can override the security settings?
One other thing, that's what really gets me desperate around this: ALL my college assignments, as well as zipped versions of the Cisco Systems CCNA Certificate Curriculum FOR ALL 4 SEMESTERS are all locked in there, and my classes start NEXT WEEK... I know it's all on the web, but the site has some serious flash stuff, and my modem's been being a beetch lately, so it's kinda hard to access it from the web... Besides, my collection of images (wallpapers, avatars, scanned drawings, and all around miscellaneous images), icons, cursors and Mugen works are all stored in there too, as well as all my music files and my downloaded videos, movies and games (I don't like to install games in the Program Files folder, it's too vulnerable to hacks from evil little brothers and manipulation from ignorant-but-self-called-know-it-all adults). In other words, my media and entertainment center, as well as ALL my college stuff, is all locked in there. What's even more desperating is the fact of knowing that everything's in there, but you can't access it.
Thanks in advance.
I recently got infected with the Blaster worm, but I was very lucky to get the correction patch and the removal tool from Symantec within the first 24 hours of infection. Nonetheless, a little ignorance on my side lead me to think that the worm had somehow damaged the Task Manager window, because all I'd see was a list of the processes being run (a friend of mine told me later that I just had to double click on it to give it back its old appearance). Since my ignorance lead me to think this, and I couldn't think of any other way to fix this "problem" I decided to reinstall Windows over the old installation my computer already had. When I was installing though, I stupidly chose to make a fresh new installation instead an upgrade (which could have probably solved my "problem"). The thing is, since I'm the actual owner of the PC I'm typing this on right now, my account was labeled by WinXP as Owner in the Documents and Settings folder, instead of DominicanZero, which is the logon name I chose in the first place. But since this PC is also used by everyone here, and I keep very important files in it, and my little brother knows how to tamper among folders to get anywhere on a PC running Windows and also likes screwing around with my stuff, I decided to take advantage of WinXP's security policies, and blocked all access to my user folders from literally ANY user, except for the Owner himself. (NOTE: I disabled the "Simple File Sharing" option in the Folder Options menu to enable the more serious security protocols and policies.) Now here comes the REAL problem: When I made the new installation, the system didn't ask me to create an Owner account. Thus, all my folders and files are now locked in the Owner folder. I know they're there, since I allowed the Administrators and Power Users groups to be able to read and list the files, but not to execute them. Even if I log on as an Administrator, I still can't access my files, and when I right click on them, and I choose the Security tab, and this is what shows up:
http://d-zero4.tripod.com/images/properties.txt
(Although it's named as a TXT, that link points to an image, but I had to rename it because Tripod's free service doesn't allow remote linking.)
As you can see, the security policies I applied before the new installation appear as Accounts Unknown. Now here's my question:
1. Can anybody suggest me a method of getting to those files, at least to transfer them to another hard drive?
2. If not, can somebody suggest a way of reactivating the Owner account?
3. Finally, if nothing else, can somebody tell me how to decrypt the information shown as Accounts Unknown in the Security tab so I can override the security settings?
One other thing, that's what really gets me desperate around this: ALL my college assignments, as well as zipped versions of the Cisco Systems CCNA Certificate Curriculum FOR ALL 4 SEMESTERS are all locked in there, and my classes start NEXT WEEK... I know it's all on the web, but the site has some serious flash stuff, and my modem's been being a beetch lately, so it's kinda hard to access it from the web... Besides, my collection of images (wallpapers, avatars, scanned drawings, and all around miscellaneous images), icons, cursors and Mugen works are all stored in there too, as well as all my music files and my downloaded videos, movies and games (I don't like to install games in the Program Files folder, it's too vulnerable to hacks from evil little brothers and manipulation from ignorant-but-self-called-know-it-all adults). In other words, my media and entertainment center, as well as ALL my college stuff, is all locked in there. What's even more desperating is the fact of knowing that everything's in there, but you can't access it.
Thanks in advance.
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