Permissions Error


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Hi.

I have just upgraded from Windows 7 (32 bit) to windows 7 (64 bit)

I did a clean install, formatting the original completely, there are no other partitions on the computer containing any other versions of Windows.

1. My network first of all didn't identify. Then it didn't find my network at all. I am plugged with a cable into the router, not wirelessly.

2. After a restart, I lost all permissions, I couldn't even get into computer, documents or anything else.

What do you guys recommend?

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By upgrade do you mean a clean install? And as for the permissions error, I had a similar issue when upgrading from 7057 to 7100 - it destroyed the permissions for two of my drives. I had to boot into Safe Mode, go into the Properties of the drives, go to the Security tab and take ownership of the drives. It required a lot of playing around with the NTFS credentials but I eventually got them working again and all my data was safe.

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You don't need to boot in to safe mode to change permissions. It can be done in normal windows environment.

And yea, when you reinstall and create a new user account, it thnks you are someone else and thus don't have permission. You need to take ownship of your files.

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You don't need to boot in to safe mode to change permissions. It can be done in normal windows environment.

Wrong. I know because I tried it - the Security tab was completely missing. I had to boot into Safe Mode in order to access the Security tab and modify the NTFS permissions.

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The security tab shows up for me on normal windows environment (right-click on parent folder >properties and it should be one of the tabs there). You must have been a standard user, since you need to be admin to change permissions.

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The security tab shows up for me on normal windows environment (right-click on parent folder >properties and it should be one of the tabs there). You must have been a standard user, since you need to be admin to change permissions.

I think we're getting our wires crossed here. Just to clarify, normally you don't need to boot into Safe Mode in order to access the Security tab. However, the issue I had meant it was impossible to interact with two of my drives and the Security tab was missing on both of them - the only way for me to correct the issue was to boot into Safe Mode.

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