Reading XP Content

[pranaman]

I have a client's hard drive. It was running XP. It had errors, and when I ran chdsk /f, it stopped booting.

I had him buy a new Windows 7 machine, and I connected the old drive as an external device to read it. I can read it, however, it keeps saying there permissions denied or something like that, and I can't copy all files away from the old drive.

I was able to change some permissions, but I don't think I've changed all, as the total space on the new copy is less than that of the original.

How can I remove the restriction for all files?

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Do you mean files in c:\documents and settings\user_name\ ?

or all files on hard drive ?

not sure why you would want c:\Program files\*.* or c:\Windows\*.*

I would test the old drive with Western Digital Data Life Guard for Windows
(or seagate equivalent before proceeding)

If Drive not physically damaged you should be able to take ownership of files

Or boot up from a linux rescue Cd/DVD/USB and copy files off using provided File Manager
Linux will ignore file ownership permisions on NTFS

Otherwise you are into data recovery on a damaged HDD and need to know what you are doing to avoid making things worse

regards
Mike Barnes

 

[pranaman]

Thank you. Sorry, I forgot to reply what I did to fix this. I copied it all to a Linux drive, then back to another drive, I forget which format now, but I did get it to work.