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Question

Recovering information from drive

Sep 21, 2015 9:40AM PDT

Can anyone help?

I'm trying to recover information from my broken laptop's hard drive. I have plugged it into my partner's desktop which is successfully reading the drive as present.

I am needing access from a specific folder that I intend to just copy and paste into the host computer. Problem: I am experiencing "permission" issues .i.e. denial of access to target folder.

Does anyone know how I may get around this issue?

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This is where I use a Live Linux CD/USB/DVD
Sep 21, 2015 10:01AM PDT

Linux does not require us to learn Linux nor install it. It does not care or obey Windows permissions. It's also free. For years I've used it from USB, CD and DVD to copy files from folders that folk forgot to backup.

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Thank you
Sep 22, 2015 12:06AM PDT

Thanks for the advice. It seems the permissions can be changed on his end but it's a very slow and tedious process as every single file needs to be changed individually. I will let him know of your suggestion. Might save a lot of effort. Thanks again.

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Re: permissions
Sep 22, 2015 12:28AM PDT

Taking ownership can be done per folder (including subfolders). No need to do each file individually.

Kees

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Re: Permissions
Sep 22, 2015 11:39PM PDT

I've tried that and it only unlocked the empty folders, so when i transferred everything over only empty folders copied. The individual files didn't so unfortunately, in this case, they do have to be changed individually. As you can imagine it's more than just a little frustrating.

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Just an old link where I shared this tip.
Sep 23, 2015 9:57AM PDT
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Thanks Everyone
Sep 24, 2015 12:52AM PDT

Thanks to all who have replied. After a bit of fiddling around I found the elusive checkbox that allowed me to change the permissions all in one go. I have now recovered all the data required. Thank you all.