Ok, so my hard drive crapped out the other day, and it seems like the boot sector and the table indicies are toast. Windows simply won't recognize the hard drive at all. So I figured I'd use my Knoppix STD v0.1 Live CD and see if i could mine the data using that.
I'm able to mount the drive Ok and I'm able to sift through all the files just fine. I have an FTP server at home running Gentoo (I believe the most recent version), so i figured I'd just ship the files off to my FTP server. I got a little fustrated trying to transfer files through a text based FTP, I kept getting a "Not a normal file" error.
So I tried booting up knoppix with a GUI. I used gFTP 2.0.15rc2 as my FTP client, and I was able to connect to the FTP server just fine. When I tried to change the local directory to my mounted hard drive, I got the message "Could not change local directory to /mnt/windows :Permission Denied" So I tried temporarily copying a couple of files I needed off the disk on to my ramdisk. I was able to set the ramdisk as my local directory just fine, but whenever I tried transfering files to the FTP it would say that it skips the file, the log would read:
Received URL file///ramdisk/var/file1.txt
Error: Cannon open local file /ramdisk/var/file1.txt :Permission Denied
PASV[]
227 Entering Passive Mode (172,17,1,1,252,250) *note: server IP is 172.17.1.1
LIST -aL []
150 Here comes the directory listing
226 Directory send OK
Now, I'm able to preview the files from the harddrive just fine, and I tried sending a random file off of the Knoppix CD to the FTP server, and that went through just fine. And yes, I did mount the hard drive with the correct file system (ntfs). I've tried transfering files to the FTP server with root access only in the text mode, and I still got the "Not a normal file error". I personally don't have root access, so I didn't get a chance to try transfering files with root access in the GUI.
I don't believe that its a firewall issue, because I can transfer files to the FTP server that don't originate from the hard drive just fine. I'm a little confused why I get permission denied when I try to transfer files from the hard drive to the FTP server, but I can copy them to the ramdisk and view them without any problems. One possible alternative I was thinking was throwing in another hard drive and trying to transfer the files from the shot hard drive to the second one.
Thoughts? Alternatives? Solutions?
If you need more info just let me know, I think I got everything of relevance tho.
**edit - Ok, I read into this a little more and it seems that drives are mounted by default as read-only, and I would need to remount it with read-write access after mounting it the first time. This will probibily fix my problem.
HP EliteBook 850 G5 15.6" 64GB RAM 2TB SSD Intel Quad Core i7 4.80GHz AMD Radeon
$570.00
Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) XMP
$38.99
A-Tech 8GB DDR3 1600 PC3-12800 Laptop SODIMM 204-Pin Memory RAM PC3L DDR3L 1x 8G
$13.99
Samsung 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz PC4-19200 Desktop RAM Memory M378A1K43CB2-CRC
$19.95
Crucial 16GB (2x 8GB) Kit DDR3L 1600MHz PC3-12800 UDIMM Desktop 240-Pin CL11 RAM
$21.33
CORSAIR Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)
$79.95
HyperX FURY RAM DDR4 16GB 8GB 32GB 4GB 3200 2666 2400 2133 Desktop Memory DIMM
$14.85
HyperX FURY DDR3 8GB 16GB 32GB 1600 MHz PC3-12800 Desktop RAM Memory DIMM 240pin
$12.90
16GB 8GB 4GB DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400U 240Pin intel DIMM Desktop PC Memory SDRAM LOT
$79.99
HyperX FURY DDR4 16GB 32GB 64GB 2666MHz PC4-21300 Desktop RAM Memory DIMM 288Pin
$119.80