How to Restore Default Folder/Drive Permissions

I've just finished a clean install of Vista but one of my drives
permissions are messed up. I was able to add my account so I can
access all the files on the drive but just to be safe I would like to
restore the default permissions to that drive.

Is there a way to do this?

Which drive? The boot drive or another drive.

This would be another drive (E:). Only data is on here....no
programs, OS, etc. Just don't want to reformat.

Try the following good old fashioned defaults
(and check the box to replace permissions on child objects)

Authenticated users
Modify
Read/Execute
List contents
Read
Write

System
Full control

Administrators
Full control

Users
Read & Execute
List folder contents
Read

If you want the more restrictive set of permissions (generally for your boot
drive)
Authenticated Users
Special permissions
Traverse
List folders /read data
Read attributes
Read extended attributes
Create files / write data
Create folders / append data
Write attributes
Write extended attributes
Delete
Read permissions

Users
Read & Execute
List folder contents
Read

Administrators
Full control

System
Full Control

I have similar problem,permissions got messed up for c:windows\system32
Is there a way to restore it to default permissions as when the system
was installed?

Please post a detailed description about the problem you're facing. Are you trying to write to the System32 folder, and receiving an error?

The problem was that the system32 folder and everything under it got
messed up by a familymember so i tryed to set it up as it was before by
looking in another pc.
Coudn´t start several system programs and eventlog was one of them.
I´v fixed that one,didn´t have right permissions in the folder
\win32\winevt.
But for future problems like this is there quick way to set permissions
on for example c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 ?.
A quick way to restor it to default.

There is a default security template which can be applied, but it resets all the registry permissions, security for system files/folders to defaults.

Hi, Please help. I removed the "Authenticated Users" in the Security
Tab. I did not really removed it. I just unchecked all the boxes, and
when I clicked "OK", the "Authenticated Users" was gone in the list. I
think this leads to several changes.

How do you restore the "Authenticated Uses" in the list? Please help.
Thanks