Blocked system ssd help

Question

Hi today I blocked my drive I set everyone’s permissions to deny and now several stuff doesn’t work UAC completely out of service task manager nothing I can’t see anything about the drive it’s completely enclosed from outside connection only stuff that works is windows itself but nothing(almost) on it as anything that requires UAC freezes the process for at least 10minutes returning problem about no permission any interaction results into no perms is there any software for removing any protection? I am owner of computer I have admin rights tho useless as UAC is non helping and all perm apps freeze, the drive settings are all locked up I mean any software or any script would be really useful I have second had with second copy of win 10 installed on that I can boot that one and access administrator cmd and powersheel and use that as executor but the WD drive reflects to any read/write as windows locked it up, btw I don’t use bitlocker or anything like that I just removed perms for anybody so any code I could execute from the working copy of OS or any working way of fixing the issue would help me really much I have some valuable data on the drive I can grab them and after the drive perms crack I can reinstall as soon as I will have proper copy of the files, thanks

Answer 1

It might be possible to re-set all perms to allow from command line but that really depends if Windows wasn't too messed up to still be able to. Something like this from Windows recovery command line maybe: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2928738/how-to-grant-permission-to-users-for-a-directory-using-command-line-in-windows However, mind you, if you mess up doing that or even trying it could potentially make things worse or not any better. Its not good to mess with perms unless you know exactly what can be done as even minor changes sometimes can result in total failures.

In this case and what I would do with perm catastrophe, you can get your files either way by using a non-Windows OS, copy them off to an external USB drive, then clean install Windows. I'm only telling you what you can do. I'm not walking you through any of that as its far too much and too varied and I don't really walk people through things anyway 99% of the time.

Someone else might try to walk you through something or suggest something a bit different perhaps should things still be somewhat working. If for instance you did something else that I'm not thinking about or understanding from your wall of text.

Hope the best :)