help ,drive is not accessible

hello , i made a stupid mistake , by clicking on the everyone under security sharing option for a drive..
and clicked on no access for everyone,
i thought that would not happen with me cuz iam on the admin acct..
but now everything is unaccessable ,
please how i fix this ?

thx

Right click on the drive in question.
Select 'Properties' <-- I forget this step
Go to the security tab
Click 'Add'
Enter this in the text field: Administrators
Click 'OK'
Under 'Allow', check 'Full Control'

Click OK

That should do it.

nope , i can access inside the drive ,
but all the subfolders inside the drive is unaccessible, it wont let me click on add under security tab... oh ya it says i do not have the permissions to edit them.. iam on admin acct too...
wat should i do ??

why didnt u read what atno said -.-

he warned you about this :/

Go back to the security tab for that drive, select Everyone, Under Allow, check 'Read & execute'. Click Ok.

still no work
wat now ?

Post a screen shot of the security tab please.

Try this:

On the security tab, click 'Advanced'
Go to the Owner tab
Select 'Administrators'
Check 'Replace Owner on Subcontainers and objects'
Click 'OK'
When prompted, click yes.

Hopefully that will enable access.

oh man,
all my videos and images wont play ,
images wont be able to view and videos cant play...
but their size is the same as before ,
nothing is openable..
wat now man ?
iam lost...

nvm man , my bad
i just have to go in to those folders that have the problem and change it to infernit from parent button on the permissions tab...
just one more question
is my drive like all fix now ? nothing will go wrong later ?

Glad you got it sorted. If you can access your files then I would say it's working. No reason why it would stop working under normal circumstances. I can't possibily predict what may go wrong in the future.

*smiles -- yep, I did warn her:


That was the first thing I learned. You simply cannot set everyone to "deny" and expect to access the drive. I'm also glad to see you got it sorted. I got stuck on a plane for the last 9 hours and couldn't get back to help. Learning how to set permissions properly is a pain in the arse, but once you've done it a few times it gets pretty easy.

The inheritance is the hardest part to understand, but as long as you keep the key rule in mind that deny overrides allow you won't go wrong. This is also important to remember if you use groups. Even though you may be an admin, if your admin is part of a group and you deny that group, you will lose rights to the access even though as an individual user you have full allow.

anyways , thx u guys for all ur support . without u guys iam ... i dont know where iam without u guys.
and a big thanks to u man "JrzyCrim"
and "ATNO/TW"
thx guys

Permissions for Windows is retarded! It should be a top-down design where permissions on top override permissions listed below or vice-versa. Ok....my venting is done now.