Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Hi people,

Im hoping you can help me.
My friend recently had his laptop die on him due to a virus, he has asked me to recover as much of his information (media, documents etc) from it as possible using my hard drive docking bay.

I've hit a problem though, every time I click on a folder or try to copy it it says I do not have the right permissions and it can not be done, I assume this is due to him having to log into windows (when it worked) on his old machine.

Any idea on how to remove or disable this? so I can recover his data?

Thanks
;)

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Select the folder, choose properties, security, advanced and change the Owners permissions for your current user to FULL CONTROL.. It might take a few minutes if you're doing a lot of files but after that you should have full access

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Probably have to take ownership of the files/folders before you can set security permissions on them. This is available by pressing the advanced button on the security tab, then go the ownership tab on the advanced window.

For both permissions and ownership i'd always go the the advanced screen and check the box that says "replace owner/permissions on subcontainers and objects".

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Isn't that what I said.. ;)

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Thanks guys

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Remember if it's been virii'd then do a full format and also rewrite of the MBR

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

ownership and NTFS permissions are technically different. under the advanced option, there should also be a tab labelled 'Owner', which is seperate from the 'Permissions' tab. the tab you described would normally be used if changing permissions on child objects when removing inheritted permissions from a parent folder as it gives the option to copy existing NTFS permissions first. otherwise, only doing what you described could have been done just in the security tab before. by setting the ownership, it ensure that all rights will be given without issue. mainly for domain use really. home computers wouldn't really suffer any problems with just changing NTFS in the security tab, provided the user was a local admin.

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

Not saying it wasn't ;):D

Re: Help recovering data from hard drive
 

LOL, my mistake, forgot to put in the OWNER tab change.. :banghead:

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