Windows 10: I created a new account and messed up with my disk

Hi,
First of all I'd like to apologize for my poor English since I'm not a native English speaker.


So yesterday, I created another account on my laptop to avoid doing unnecessary work as an Admin account to much. Then I was setting privilege to that account. I wanted to prevent anybody who used that account from deleting from any files from my laptop.


Then I clicked on my alternative disk E:\, opened its properties, changed its security settings and did something with the permissions. And this was where I messed up.


I edited the permission that account could do to the disk Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> Changed Permissions -> Edit and then I selected this:


Deny Delete - Delete subfolders - Change permission - Read permission - Take ownership


And then I messed up. That disk is now quite locked, and I can't do anything to it - deleting files, change files, etc. even as an administrator account.

And even after I System Restore 'ed.





Is there any ways that I could restore my disk? That disk currently has nothing important, but I'd like to unlock it now because the local disk will be full soon.

:)

 

Create Password Rest Disk

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. I will assist you with this.

Note

• 
  A password reset disk can only be created for local user accounts. If your computer is on a domain, a system administrator can reset your domain password. For Microsoft accounts you can reset the password by following the steps below
  
  • Sign in to your Microsoft account, then select
    Security & privacy.
  • Select Change password.
  • Enter your current password, then the new password that you want to use, then enter the new password again.
  • Select Save.
  
  

Try the following steps to create a password reset disk for a local user account.

• Login to your computer using the local account you want to create a password reset disk for.
• Insert a USB drive or SD card into the computer.
• Type Create a password reset disk and select it
• Click Next.
• Select the location to create the password key disk and click Next.
• Enter your account password and click Next.
• Click Next, then click Finish.

Hope the above information helps. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further. Thank you.

 

Am unable to create a new user. Accounts -> Add someone else to this PC options is not working to create a new account.

Hi Pawan,

Do not worry we will help you with this issue.

Try few of the troubleshooting steps below and check if it helps.

I suggest you to sign out from the current user account, restart the computer, sign-in and check with the status of this issue. As this might be a temporary issue.

Follow the below steps to create a new user account:

• Press Windows + X keys from the keyboard, click on
  Control Panel.
• Select User Accounts, click on Manage another account.
• Select Add a new user in PC settings, click on
  Add someone else to this PC and follow onscreen instructions.

Refer to: Create a local user account
in Windows 10

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of creating a new user account for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

Unable to create new User account

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

• 
  Are you logged in with a Microsoft account or Local account?
  
• 
  Are you trying to create new user account using Administrator account?
  

I suggest you to run SFC scan.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files

Run the System File Checker (SFC) scan to fix any corrupted files. Follow these steps:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833?wa=wsignin1.0

Please get back to us with the information required, we’ll be glad to assist you.