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Can't Access old XP drive!

TBSN

TBSN

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I recently found a friends hard drive from a few years ago. It has an XP installation on it, it's absolutely horrifically messed up, I won't be able to boot it. Anyway, I'm on windows 7 and i changed the owner of the drive to me, allowed total control, etc, in the permissions, but it doesn't seem to apply to all of the drive. Some of the files I can't access and the only way I can seem to make it work is going one by one, changing the owner to me, then giving myself permissions, then opening/moving the file.

I can't do this for every file, it's too much work. What alternatives do I have? Is there a live linux CD I could try? Are there any ways to FORCE myself to have access?

Thanks!
 
I'd try a Linux CD. I'm not sure what will happen once you get the files to a Windows box, and try reading them with Windows though. If it didn't work, a kludgy fix would be to copy the files to a fat32 partition using Linux. I'm guessing that would remove NTFS permissions, but I don't really know how all of that works.
 
I just found out what I was doing wrong. I believe that when I tried to set ownership I didn't check the box to have it apply to all of the contents of the drive recursively.

That, and some of the files I tried to access are too corrupted to open.

This is a total trip to the past, though, all this stuff from the first year of College... Thank god it's not my drive, I don't want to see that stuff 😛
 
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