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Cygwin Problem: Can’t Access /cygdrive/c

I’ve lost my ability to see my c: drive from cygwin. when I do

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<span class='line'>$ cd c:</span>

or

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<span class='line'>$ cd /cygdrive/c</span>

all goes ok. But if I do

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<span class='line'>$ ls</span>

then it complains

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<span class='line'>ecerulm@rlm-ecb4fe6cda1 /cygdrive/c $ ls
</span><span class='line'>ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory</span>

I found something at this forum and also here
So it seems that I screwed up permission (maybe it related to some automatic windows update). So after checking my username and group are the right on with

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<span class='line'>$ id</span>

I noticed that I can perform

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<span class='line'>$ cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ And\ Settings</span>

and see the contents of that directory so I must be some problem with the permission at the root folder c:

So I right-click the c drive and click on Properties. In the security tab added permission to “Read & execute” to Everyone but I didn’t solve the problem so I guess I have to live with this little annoyance.

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