need permissions help with SATA drive.

[Cr0nJ0b]

Here's what I have...A failing IDE drive that bluescreens the XP boot (even in safe mode). I bought a new SATA replacement that I formatted and is ready to copy data to...but here is the issue. The only way I can even access the data is in the recovery console. I boot to RC and I can still see the drive structure...and I'm hoping I can still copy the data out...The problem is that when I try, the SATA shows up as access denied, since all of the permissions are turned off. I can't find a chmod like command in the RC that will allow me to open up the disk...what should I do? I figure once I can write to the SATA, I can just copy the data over with Xcopy or robocopy.

Any thoughts?

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

so I've been screwing with this thing for hours and I can't figure this out. It's the strangest thing I have ever seen (not really but close).

I can boot the bad IDE drive into the recovery console with the new SATA drive That I formatted...but I get acess denied when I try to write to the SATA drive. So i figure it's permissions and boot into recovery with the OS partition online and after I login with my password the system reboots. Even if I don't use my login to bypass the OS login at the recovery console the system reboots.

My next try will be to reformat the drive in the RC and see if i can write to it there.

 

[Bozo Galora]

I have read your posts and I still cant grasp what you are attempting
You did not mention whats on the bluescreens
How do you know IDE is "bad"? Physically?
You are getting access denied to the SATA drive with nothing on it? Which leaves out NTFS permissions and Virus. Are both formatted same NTFS?
So you obviuosly have loaded no drivers in O/S IDE drive for SATA drive controller?
If you cant access IDE drive, then you cant install SATA drivers
Did you turn on SATA in BIOS?
Have you tried recov console from XP CD?
Have you tried a live Knoppix booted to CD? (Freeware)
I believe Hirens Boot CD, and some of the compact (on CD) bootable Linux distro's have servant salamander - explorer type module
http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/

Have you tried a system rollback from safe mode command prompt?
type the following after docs and settings line
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe


"I can boot the bad IDE drive into the recovery console with the new SATA drive "
What does that mean - with the SATA drive connected?

If you have critical data, then I would buy another cheap as possible IDE drive, load it with XP SP2 by itself, then jumper bad IDE as slave and hook it up to new IDE and transfer data.

If you STILL have acces denied, then you can go to new IDE master drive......
Cruise to the locked drive in My Computer, pick properties, and chose Backup on the Tools tab. For some reason the backup utility can navigate a locked drive even though My Computer and DOS could not. back up the needed files to the master drive, format the locked drive, and then restore the files back to it.

 

[Blain]

Have you run any diagnostics on the HD, using the manufacturers utilities?

 

[gerwen]

Remove your old drive and install windows onto the new. Then reinstall the old drive while the new is still primary boot. You should have full access to copy off the old drive under windows.

 

[KayKay]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
i used this to recover data that was on a drive that couldn't be seen by windows, or knoppix or anything! try it!!

it runs from windows, in a command prompt window, so if you can maybe get windows up and running (maybe from the sata drive), then use this to retrieve the data

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

thanks for all of the responses. I wasn't very clear in my posts.

I know the IDE drive is bad, because when i try to boot up XP (which is on a SATA), the system will bluescreen near the end of the boot process , after the desktop comes up. My guess is that some process is checking or working on the bad disk and freaks when the data comes up bad...or the DMA burps or something. When I take the IDE out, everything boots fine.

I tried knoppix, but the SATA I had as a target for the recovery was formatted for NTFS so it was read/only...at least with knoppix 4.0.

So then I reformatted the disk to FAT32, so I could write to it.

I ran Rsync to get the data off the old disk...but then I had several files that were larger than 4GB, which I think is a FAT limiations...there is something there that caused the process to stop. So, now I'm SCP'ing the large files out to my server over the network, I'll resyn and verify the data is there, then I'll load format the bad disk and see if I can bring it back to life. I'm definitely going to RMA tha sucker.