read permission denied as root

[plaming]

i am trying to recover data on a relatives laptop. it has windows 2000 installed but he cannot login. knoppix boots fine and mounts the hard drive - i can browse folders and files but cannot read some files. I found a handful of files that are accessable, but the majority are not. if i try to copy them over the network via samba, i get a permission denied. i also get a permission denied if i try to copy a file from the the hard drive (/mnt/hda) into a local /home/knoppix directory. this is all as root. anyone know what is going on. im no expert but not a complete newbie.



Example:
root@0[Desktop]# ls -lat InvestmentView.lnk
-r-xr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 410 Jun 8 19:15 InvestmentView.lnk
root@0[Desktop]# cat InvestmentView.lnk
cat: InvestmentView.lnk: Permission denied
root@0[Desktop]# cp InvestmentView.lnk /home/knoppix/
cp: reading `InvestmentView.lnk': Permission denied
root@0[Desktop]# pwd
/mnt/hda1/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop
root@0[Desktop]# whoami
root


any ideas?

[mmaki]

Try this: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22234&highlight=

I just posted it for a similar situation.

Good Luck!

Mike