Help reclaiming my files from windows permission prison?, page 2

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It's still on my laptop under Linux now so I'm not working with it for awhile but the obvious things with security didn't do the trick. This drive was acting under windows like the locked directories were off limits to me entirely. It was like I was using a lower privilege account, which makes no sense because I was trying to do this as admin. It'll be a bit before I get any time to mess with it again on the windows machine to see what would have worked ..but I was at my wits end by the time I wandered over here. lol... I really don't understand it though.

I've used permissions to lock things this way deliberately before on my Son's machine and it's no problem, for me anyway. This though? Well.... I guess this is what he feels like if he wanders off the path I set in that box for him to stay on. To have it happen on my own stuff that has not been changed ...that I ever meant to do ... for security or permissions was infuriating. I'll see and definitely update here when I can hook that back up and work with it without fear of losing anything important if it goes sideways on me.

Im just glad I had another option outside the windows environment.

Late post here. Not sure if you resolved the issue. It sounds like you had a problem accessing the drive by not mounting it first? Not sure exactly what your setup is. I know if you're using a live cd some of those won't allow you to have super user access and won't let you mount your main drive in your system. Reason being it protects the drive from people accidentally messing up their system drive while checking out the live cd. Though there is copies out there to get like backtrack 5 that you can set root passwords and setup sudoers. If you have a true linux install then you still have to do sudo to mount the drive first before you can access it. Couple of reference links...

Mounting Drive in Linux 1

Moutning Drive in Linux 2

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