well good stuff to know there, but the problem is i'm not trying to recover the files anymore, all my drives are set as read only, i'm not intending to use linux, i am using windows. i need to find a way to make the drives write enabled again, i can write things to the drive, but i can't move folders, as i found out when i tried to move the folder i had to recover. i have tried to go into safe mode and fix it (and i will try it again as i thought of something) but it did not fix my being able to fix the fact that all drives connected to the computer are set as read only. and on my c drive (where windows is installed) i can change it and it will change all the files to not read only, but after i close the properties box it sets tham all back to read only. on the other drives it won't even try to change the files...

*edit i have found that only the folders are read only, all the files are full permissions.