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GoGeTa006:
So I finally got my PCI-e to IDE controller card.
Im still working on it since the system cant recognize it =.=
im looking for the drivers. . .
anyways. .

I hooked up an old hard drive to a cable that is hooked into the motherboard.

So I go to that hard drive and try to go to my downloads folder. .. but OH! Its inside documents and settings and I dont have permission to access that folder!

anyone know how to remove that security thingy?
I know the password that I used on that computer but . . how do I bypass that security or what do I do to recover those files?



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Lupin:
The easiest way to bypass the encryption is to boot into linux with ntfs support. Linux will ignore all file permissions on the drive. Once you get your stuff, reformat the drive.

Another way is to use a data recovery software that ignores file permissions

fohfoh:
Lupin, isn't the HDD also not being read correctly?  For instance, since there's file permissions and such, I would assume that there are windows files still on that HDD? For which, if those files are intact, the computer (even if it's told which is primary and which is slave) will still ask you a dual boot question as to which windows install you want to load.

At least that's what has occurred to me in the past.

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: Lupin on December 10, 2009, 11:09:23 PM ---The easiest way to bypass the encryption is to boot into linux with ntfs support. Linux will ignore all file permissions on the drive. Once you get your stuff, reformat the drive.

Another way is to use a data recovery software that ignores file permissions

--- End quote ---
I have vista and win 7. . .I dont want to go all the way to getting a linux client to recover around 10 gigs of anime

Lupin:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 10, 2009, 11:46:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: Lupin on December 10, 2009, 11:09:23 PM ---The easiest way to bypass the encryption is to boot into linux with ntfs support. Linux will ignore all file permissions on the drive. Once you get your stuff, reformat the drive.

Another way is to use a data recovery software that ignores file permissions

--- End quote ---
I have vista and win 7. . .I dont want to go all the way to getting a linux client to recover around 10 gigs of anime

--- End quote ---
You don't have to install linux

just use the live cd. Ubuntu's live cd has good ntfs support. Just boot into it, open the drive then copy the contents to another partition.

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