I have my friend's hard drive mounted externally. After messing with the permissions with TAKEOWN so I could fix some viruses, I have full control over their drive. The problem is, now it's stuck in a "autochk not found" reboot sequence. I think the problem is that the boot sector is invisible to the drive now.

So my question is, How can I use icacls to give back the full ownership, when the user I am giving it to is not on my machine?

I ran the TAKEOWN command from my windows 7 laptop, their machine is a windows xp Professional with three partitions, I only altered the one that has the boot sector.

Here is the permissions that icacls shows: (Where my computer is %System% my username is ME, and the drive is E:\

C:\Users\ME> icacls E:\*

E:\$RECYCLE.BIN %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
Mandatory Label\Low Mandatory Level:(OI)(CI)(IO)(NW)
E:\ALLDATAW %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\alrt_200.data %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\AUTOEXEC.BAT %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\AZ Commercial %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\boot.ini %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Config.Msi %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\CONFIG.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Documents and Settings %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\IO.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Mitchell1 %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\MSDOS.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\MSOCache %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\NTDClient.log %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\NTDETECT.COM %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\ntldr %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\pagefile.sys %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Program Files %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\RECYCLER %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\RHDSetup.log %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\System Volume Information %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\WINDOWS %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
Successfully processed 22 files; Failed processing 0 files
C:\Users\ME>

I have my friend's hard drive mounted externally. After messing with the permissions with TAKEOWN so I could fix some viruses, I have full control over their drive. The problem is, now it's stuck in a "autochk not found" reboot sequence. I think the problem is that the boot sector is invisible to the drive now.

So my question is, How can I use icacls to give back the full ownership, when the user I am giving it to is not on my machine?

I ran the TAKEOWN command from my windows 7 laptop, their machine is a windows xp Professional with three partitions, I only altered the one that has the boot sector.

Here is the permissions that icacls shows: (Where my computer is %System% my username is ME, and the drive is E:\

C:\Users\ME> icacls E:\*

E:\$RECYCLE.BIN %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
Mandatory Label\Low Mandatory Level:(OI)(CI)(IO)(NW)
E:\ALLDATAW %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\alrt_200.data %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\AUTOEXEC.BAT %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\AZ Commercial %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\boot.ini %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Config.Msi %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\CONFIG.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Documents and Settings %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\IO.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Mitchell1 %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\MSDOS.SYS %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\MSOCache %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\NTDClient.log %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\NTDETECT.COM %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\ntldr %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\pagefile.sys %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\Program Files %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\RECYCLER %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\RHDSetup.log %System%\ME:(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\System Volume Information %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
E:\WINDOWS %System%\ME:(I)(OI)(CI)(F)
Successfully processed 22 files; Failed processing 0 files
C:\Users\ME>