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

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!

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!

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

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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

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

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-".

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Originally Posted by 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-".

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

Can't help you there.
Sorry. :(

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.