I am new to this forum but have a frustrating problem for the last week:
When I start up Win XP I see a message c:\$secure is corrupt please use CHKDSK -
I did - nothing changed.
This is an HP Media Centre machine and there are no CDs provided just a recovery partition that offers to Restore the system which I think it means it will wipe out everything. I have too much set up for that.
So how to clear this error?
I think it is repsonsible for all my files now being set up with no permissions for access - no inheritance - so the files will not open. I have to take Ownership and then then add Everybody in the properties menu one by one. When I went to my C:/documents and settings/user=me I tried to add Everybody but Windows failed and would not save the changes- so it seems it would not save the new security.
I wondered if this was a virus or just an unlucky corruption.
Anybody have ideas on how to reset the security without starting again?
When I start up Win XP I see a message c:\$secure is corrupt please use CHKDSK -
I did - nothing changed.
This is an HP Media Centre machine and there are no CDs provided just a recovery partition that offers to Restore the system which I think it means it will wipe out everything. I have too much set up for that.
So how to clear this error?
I think it is repsonsible for all my files now being set up with no permissions for access - no inheritance - so the files will not open. I have to take Ownership and then then add Everybody in the properties menu one by one. When I went to my C:/documents and settings/user=me I tried to add Everybody but Windows failed and would not save the changes- so it seems it would not save the new security.
I wondered if this was a virus or just an unlucky corruption.
Anybody have ideas on how to reset the security without starting again?
