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Can't get files off of a HD with XP installed - Solved

Peter PrinciplePeter Principle Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I've got two computers, CrowTRobot and TomServo. CrowTRobot is the newer computer, TomServo is the older computer. They are both running Windows XP. I took the HD (a Seagate SATA drive) out of TomServo and installed it into CrowTRobot. The original hard drive in Crow is still Crow's boot drive. When I log in to Crow and try to access files on the HD from Tom, I can see the HD just fine (and all partitions) and I can access most of the files, those that were just on the HD and in the profiles that weren't p/w protected. But some of the files were on the admin profile, password protected, and when I try to open the folder that those files are in, it tells me: "E:\Documents and Settings\[profile name] is not accessible. Access is denied."

I tried this, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421, How To Take Ownership of a File or Folder, but it did no good. How can I access the info in these folders?

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did you attempt to take ownership of the folder and it gave an error?
    Ubuntu live CD will ignore NTFS permissions.

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  • Peter PrinciplePeter Principle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    PirateJon wrote: »
    Did you attempt to take ownership of the folder and it gave an error?

    No, apparently my admin account already owns the folder.
    Ubuntu live CD will ignore NTFS permissions.
    Will Ultimate Boot CD for Windows do the same thing?
    Why are we whispering?

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  • RedDawnRedDawn Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    You should still force an overwrite to the drive ownership and permissions. Windows can be very fickle when it comes to disk protection.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Giving the UBCD a quick gander it doesn't look like it has that functionality. I may have missed it tho.
    Anytime I have permission problems /security issues I like to dim the lights, run tcpdump in -vvvv mode, and whisper.
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    Enhance that!

    Weird. Once you own the folder, you should be able to give everyone full control over the file. Did you own the folder, then the file? You can use this handy util to check the permissions that are there - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897332.aspx. Should help find the issue.

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  • Peter PrinciplePeter Principle Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    All that AccessEnum told me was that "Access is denied". Nothing else. Heh.

    UBCD4W was the ticket. Solved.

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