Linux doesn't care about windows folder and file permissions. Can you copy the folders from that drive onto another partition such as into Linux or to a FAT32 formatted partition? Have you tried to copy them over to something else instead of just trying to open them? Are they encrypted? Did you reinstall windows 8 and use the same machine name and user profile as before?
Hi there,
Let me explain in detail.
I have windows 8 installed on c drive and Linux mint installed on separate hard disk. Everything was working fine before I installed kubuntu from Linux mint. After installation I couldn't get into windows 8 because it was giving error message 0*c000000f. I tried to refresh Windows but no avail because windows has locked that drive and I couldn't access it. Than I decided to backup important files from windows 8 hard disk from Linux. I accessed windows 8 drive but three folders were missing "Windows" , "Users" and "Program Files(64)" other than that I can access all files and problem is all important data is in user folder.
Than I installed windows 8 on different partition still same thing cant access those three folders. Is there any possible way to simply access user folder?
Any help would be appreciated.

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