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You cannot configure ACL to the drive root by using icacls.exe

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Symptoms

The first time that you try to run the icacls.exe utility to configure access control lists (ACL) on the root drive of a Windows-Server-2003-based computer, you may receive the following error message:
icacls e:\ /grant Adminstrator:(F)
INTERNAL ERROR: invalid aclsize
e:\: An internal error occurred.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

Note You only receive this error message the first time that you run the icacls.exe utility to configure the ACL on the root drive.

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Cause

This issue occurs because the root ACL is set to an incorrect value.

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Resolution

To resolve this issue, execute the following command before you run the icacls.exe utility:
icacls E:\ /resize

This command sets the length of drive root ACL to the correct value.

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Source: Microsoft Support

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Keywords: KB967539, kbprb, kbsurveynew

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Article Info
Article ID : 967539
Revision : 4
Created on : 3/14/2009
Published on : 3/14/2009
Exists online : False
Views : 226