Posted: 3/11/2006 12:32:16 PM EDT
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Our story so far: My laptop went tits up so I bought a new one. I took the hard drive out of the old one and put it in an external hard drive enclosure, then connected that to my new laptop. It shows up as drive E: but when I go into Documents and Settings, it has All Users and Owner. Owner won't let me open it. How do I get that bitch open? That's where all my documents are, I guess. I haven't been able to find them anywhere else on the drive. |
It's NTFS. Guessing that it used to be the boot drive? If you can boot from it again you can recover your shizzle. If you manage to boot from it again and get back into your account (which I'm guessing was the admin one) goto "C:\Documents and Settings\Your Account" right click it and click the tab that says "Sharing". Then uncheck the box that says "Make this folder private". |
This man speaks the truth. www.knoppix.net/ |
| If you wanna do it with windows, you need to take ownership of the drive, reset all the permissions. Easy with XP Pro, harder with home but still completly do able. And you don't have to download other third party stuff, you machine has the capability of doing it, you just need to know how. |
What he said... :) Are you at all familiar with NT folder and file permissions? I hope so... If you go to that Drive that has the folder on it... Right click on the folder and go to properties. Click on the security tab { If that is no tthere ... go to control panel -> Folder options -> then click on the view tab -> All the way down the bottom will be a radio button called [use simple file sharing (recommended)] Uncheck that click apply and then ok... After that the security tab should be there as per the instructions above. When you first click on the tab it will tell you that you are not the owner but you can take over ownership of the folder.... Few... I haven't done it in a while but it does work. to much to type now.. Check http://msdn.com if you need help on file and folder permisions. This will work if yah figure it out, I have done this many, many times. DO not use Kanoppix unless you understand how Unix/Linux Works! If you can not get thru it PM me and ill try som more indepth instructions. I will be back infront of the computer tomorrow afternoon. |
It's just a permissions issue... Just log in as Administrator (since Admin can change anything Admin wants to change) and change the owner to your new user name.... |
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Last I recall, Knoppix won't mount an NTFS partition. There are utilities one can load that will let Linux mount NTFS partitions. I used one before in FC3, but I think it only gave READ access. Probably needs to go to the drive's properties and change himself to the owner. That should change the permissions on all the folders and then give him access. |
It works trust me. i use knoppix EVERYDAY at work recovering xp PRO data. boot off that cd. then use a usb thumb drive to copy the data over. very simple |
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It'll mount NTFS readonly. I haven't seen a version that will mount NTFS in writable mode. BTW, Linux cannot break the encrypted mode on NTFS -- from what I've read, there are no utilities out there that are able to break it. Microsoft got that one right, anyway. |
I got Owner open with the security tab, but when I try to open My Documents or any other folders in Owner, it still denies me. When I try to do the same thing to those folders with the security tab, it says "You do not have permission to view or edit the current permission settings for My Documents, but you can take ownership or change auditing settings." |
Fixed. |
I had this EXACT same problem. This is the solution if you have XP PRO, with XP HOME, you must log in under safe mode to make this change.
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