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Are you logged in as in administrator? Does UAC come up and say your denied? Or is it just a general error? If you can screenshot it and post it that might help.[/quotemsg]
Yes. I am logged in as an admin. It turns out the UAC was the problem. I did some more digging in the forums and I actually found the solution to my problem. Here is what I had to do.
'1) Run computer in Safe mode with command prompt by tapping F8 when your computer boot up
2) Logon to your user account (with admin rights)
3) Type "net user administrator /active:yes"
4) Ctrl-alt-del to logoff
5) Logon as administrator
6) Ctrl-alt-del start task manager
7) Disable UAC with RegEdit
Type regedit
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Locate the following REG_DWORD value:
EnableLUA
Set the value of EnableLUA to 0.
Optional step to suppress UAC consent prompt dialog, locate the following REG_DWORD value:
ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin
Set the value of ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin to 0 (optional).
Exit from Registry Editor and restart the computer to turn off UAC
8) Reboot computer
9) Goto My computer, right click C: drive, then properties, security, advance, effective permission, select, enter your own user name, ok
Done, you have access to C: now. But must do the following to increase security because you just compromise your own computer security in this way.
10) Enable back your UAC
press windows button + R
type in msconfig
goto tools, change uac setting, launch, set to default
Reboot, done =)"
Here is the link to the forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-security/lost-access-to-c-drive-cant-open-access-control/f920e7d0-7cd0-4524-99bb-16b219aaf162?page=2
Thanks for your help, all. Now I can get rid of this thing after I dump my files onto a flash drive.