Re: writeable ntfs

From: Nix (nix-razor-pit_at_esperi.org.uk)
Date: 10/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:31:43 +0100

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Mark Hobley gibbered uncontrollably:
> I have seen ntfs screw up big time on a windows xp boxes, with the system not
> allowing any access to files, even as administrator.

This tends to happen if you do something like delete the Administrator
user. You're basically completely screwed after that; even recreating it
will give you a user with a different SID...

(good design? not hardly.) 

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