Windows installer not accessible by Admin acct

[lalaji]

Ok im hoping you guys can help me out with this... my buddies PC is posessed. When he tries to install anything he gets an error that says Windows installer is unaccessible by administrator or something to that effect. I tried booting into safe mode and apparently his admin acct still does not have access to it. Hes running Win2k. The specs as i know them for his PC are as follows:
P4 2.4
MSI Mobo
1.5GB DDR
6 Hdds
DVD rom
CDRW
Enermax 350W PSU

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Also while im posting i may as well ask about the other problem we hit with this demon machine. When i told him to install XP to see if that would fix it when he did XP only recognized a few of his HDDs and said they were all RAW data when in fact they all are NTFS holding lots of data. Some are plugged into the mobo and some are in a IDE Controller card. Any ideas about this? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[LNCPapa]

You should be able to go into Disk Management and right click on the volume to import the foreign (drive/image?) After you do that you should have access to the data on that drive again.

As for the installer issue I'm not really sure. You can try having him update his Windows Installer service if not already updated at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f9-2d36-4977-8fa1-6f8a0f5dca8f&DisplayLang=en

 

[lalaji]

Thanks for the info... ill let him know and see what we can do... if the windows installer trick doesnt work... ill tell him to go back to XP and see if we can get the drives working again. Thanks again.