Win XP Machine- Trying to Access /mnt/hda2/Program Files

[jtaugher]

I've booted up with Knoppix CD, and I'm trying to access a Windows XP Professional HD (/mnt/hda2). In trying to access Program Files (which has a lock on it), a dialogue tells me "You do not have enough permissions to read file:/mnt/hda2/Program Files".

How do I access this, so I can recover photo-images stored underneath the Kodak directory? (Please be specific - I'm still a Knoppix-Newbie!) :?:

After I can access it, I would like to use a GUI (WebBrowser) to FTP to my nearby machine running FTP. This I've already done for my "Documents and Settings" folder.

I appreciate your assistance in advance!

[eon]

You need to be root to access those files.
Perhaps the easiest GUI way to do this is to open the kmenu item System>more programs>File Manager-Super User Mode. When the file manager opens it will ask for a root password.
I haven't run from the live CD in a while I think in the live CD the root password is just "root". unless the version your using wants something else try that and good luck!

[firebyrd10]

Rather then mess with a password (there is none, you have to set it first)
open up a consol and type
su
konqueror

That should fix the lock.

From the same window you can type

ftp://ftp_server

[jtaugher]

Neither items worked - perhaps I need to read into what you wrote, but doing exactly what you described doesn't provide a working solution.

Program Files still shows a lock on it.

The partition isn't readable, would ERD Commander from Winternals or any of their products work?

[firebyrd10]

Neither items worked - perhaps I need to read into what you wrote, but doing exactly what you described doesn't provide a working solution.

Program Files still shows a lock on it.

The partition isn't readable, would ERD Commander from Winternals or any of their products work?

Try right clicking on the folder and going to permissions. What does it say?

[jtaugher]

When I right-click on "Program Files" which doesn't look like a directory, but a file, it says "Type: Empty Document" . It also says underneath Permissions:

* Owner: Forbidden
* Group: Forbidden
* Others: Forbidden
Ownership:
User: root
Group: root

[jtaugher]

When I try to change the Access Permissions from Forbidden to "Can Read & Write", I get "Could not change permissions for /mnt/hda2/Program Files".

When I'm in the root shell, and I type "ls -l" .. all the directories show in Blue, all the Files show in Green. Unbelievably does "Program Files" show in Green -- however it's permissions show as "?---------" whereas everything else shows as either "drwxrwxrwx" or "-rw-rw-rw-".

[firebyrd10]

When I try to change the Access Permissions from Forbidden to "Can Read & Write", I get "Could not change permissions for /mnt/hda2/Program Files".

When I'm in the root shell, and I type "ls -l" .. all the directories show in Blue, all the Files show in Green. Unbelievably does "Program Files" show in Green -- however it's permissions show as "?---------" whereas everything else shows as either "drwxrwxrwx" or "-rw-rw-rw-".

Hmm, it thinks that its a file not a folder.

Can't help you there.
Sorry. :(

[jtaugher]

Thanks for all your help -- I purchased a key for GetDataBack for NTFS (from Runtime.org) and voila it read sector by sector everything (choked out quite a bit of corruptness) and then I was able to pull about 5GB of data off of it.