Been havin a spot of trouble again, this time it's a lil more serious than I thought it would be. Basically i set some permissions on a few directories and forgot to remove them before reinstalling XP, and now can't access them. I've tried a few things like clicking properties on each dir and replacing permissions, also using convert /nosecurity with no luck too, can't think of much else to right now, can't really even copy the files somewhere else to back them up and format the partition.

Coffee.