Solve : Local Network Disk Access from Recovery Command Prompt?

1.	Solve : Local Network Disk Access from Recovery Command Prompt?
Answer» Hi, I need to access a local network connected disk from the command prompt within the System Recovery Options menu on the Windows installation disc. My Net Use command works OK from the standard command prompt on the administrator ID but it fails in the recovery environment: Net Use T: \\EXTERNALDRIVE\Public\Desired Folder Unfortunately when I tried the command from the recovery environment I got: Work STATION Service has not been started Net Helpmsg 2138 . I need advice on how to start the work station service from the command prompt. Thanks Frank C Win Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2I don't think you can do TH that. Instead boot from a CD that has that feature. It might help if you told us what you want to do if you cooed get to the network drive. Could make a difference to the answers you get. Thanks for the reply Geek 9 I am trying to delete some files with corrupted PERMISSIONS and/or owner. I have tried the standard routes; Takeown and ICACLS. I get permission denied. And from Properties: properties > security tab > edit > add I get: "The program cannot open the required dialog box because it cannot determine whether the computer named "external drive" is joined to a domain. I want to try deleting the files from the recovery environment with notepad before the vagaries of windows permissions and ownership takes place. Thanks Frank C The bad files ore on a server? You are not the administrator? Or do you mean files on the local machine? You should be able to boot a 'Live CD' of one of the current Linux OS. If it can find your network, it may use SAMBA to read what ever is on the network. Corrupted files can be near impossible to delete. can not delete corrupted files Quote from: FrankGC on August 06, 2010, 01:43:43 PM I want to try deleting the files from the recovery environment with notepad before the vagaries of windows permissions and ownership takes place. If that worked, wouldn't that mean that any hacker with a boot CD could wreak havoc and make arbitrary changes to any system on a network? The files are on a shared (by laptop and desktop) external disk on my local home network. I am administrator. I tried deleting as administrator with no SUCCESS. I do not have a Linux OS and I do not know SAMBA. Thanks Frank CMy link above gives many possible solutions. 1. Restart in safe mode. As real administrator. 2. run Chkdsk Chkdsk is a utility that checks the computer's hard disk drives' status for any cross-linked or any additional errors with the hard disk dri 3. Does the file have a very long name? Deep path name? Some ODD chars in path or name? 4. Is the file really huge? Hi After many months of futile attempts to clean up "bad" files on my external shared drive, files and folders that I could not change or delete, I have finally had success. My stepson who is a computer whiz came to visit and provided this solution: He defined a administrative user in Windows exactly equal to the owner of folders on the the external drive that I could not manage- (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin). Other owners; (Unix User\nobody) and (EXTERNALDRIVE\everyone were OK I could manipulate them -move delete etc..He made this owner - admin - part of WORKGROUP using the Western Digital user interface. With this ID he copied the folders with bad files to a temp folder, deleted the bad folder and renamed the temp folder to the name of the original folder. That corrected the bad owners and provided write access where I previously had only read access. He had no thought on how the ownership got corrupted by ROBOCOPY but I am very happy with his solution. I post this in the hope that it may help others. Frank C

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Hi,
I need to access a local network connected disk from the command prompt within the System Recovery Options menu on the Windows installation disc. My Net Use command works OK from the standard command prompt on the administrator ID but it fails in the recovery environment:
Net Use T: \\EXTERNALDRIVE\Public\Desired Folder
Unfortunately when I tried the command from the recovery environment I got:
Work STATION Service has not been started Net Helpmsg 2138 .
I need advice on how to start the work station service from the command prompt.
Thanks
Frank C
Win Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2I don't think you can do TH that.
Instead boot from a CD that has that feature.

It might help if you told us what you want to do if you cooed get to the network drive. Could make a difference to the answers you get.
Thanks for the reply Geek 9
I am trying to delete some files with corrupted PERMISSIONS and/or owner. I have tried the standard routes; Takeown and ICACLS. I get permission denied. And from Properties:
properties > security tab > edit > add I get:
"The program cannot open the required dialog box because it cannot determine
whether the computer named "external drive" is joined to a domain.

I want to try deleting the files from the recovery environment with notepad before the vagaries of windows permissions and ownership takes place.
Thanks
Frank C

The bad files ore on a server? You are not the administrator?
Or do you mean files on the local machine?

You should be able to boot a 'Live CD' of one of the current Linux OS.
If it can find your network, it may use SAMBA to read what ever is on the network.

Corrupted files can be near impossible to delete.
can not delete corrupted files Quote from: FrankGC on August 06, 2010, 01:43:43 PM

I want to try deleting the files from the recovery environment with notepad before the vagaries of windows permissions and ownership takes place.

If that worked, wouldn't that mean that any hacker with a boot CD could wreak havoc and make arbitrary changes to any system on a network?
The files are on a shared (by laptop and desktop) external disk on my local home network. I am administrator. I tried deleting as administrator with no SUCCESS.
I do not have a Linux OS and I do not know SAMBA.
Thanks
Frank CMy link above gives many possible solutions.
1. Restart in safe mode. As real administrator.
2. run Chkdsk
Chkdsk is a utility that checks the computer's hard disk drives' status for any cross-linked or any additional errors with the hard disk dri
3. Does the file have a very long name? Deep path name? Some ODD chars in path or name?
4. Is the file really huge?
Hi
After many months of futile attempts to clean up "bad" files on my external shared drive, files and folders that I could not change or delete, I have finally had success.
My stepson who is a computer whiz came to visit and provided this solution:
He defined a administrative user in Windows exactly equal to the owner of folders on the the external drive that I could not manage- (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin). Other owners; (Unix User\nobody) and (EXTERNALDRIVE\everyone were OK I could manipulate them -move delete etc..He made this owner - admin - part of WORKGROUP using the Western Digital user interface. With this ID he copied the folders with bad files to a temp folder, deleted the bad folder and renamed the temp folder to the name of the original folder. That corrected the bad owners and provided write access where I previously had only read access.
He had no thought on how the ownership got corrupted by ROBOCOPY but I am very happy with his solution.
I post this in the hope that it may help others.
Frank C

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