[happyrck]

got a clients hard drives...he wants to get copies of his data off his drives...windows "see's" the drive that contained the operating system and all the data on that drive has been copied to dvds...the second drive ..a 320 gig sata drive .. does not show up in "my computer" but does in the device manager...its listed as foreign and the data is inaccessible
so I booted with puppy linux...the sata drive does not show up at all...
then booted with ubuntu ...it "see's " the sata drive and all the data on there( 36 gigs of data) the problem is when I try to copy the data to another usb external drive or burn to dvds I get a error message saying I don't have permission...
the same thing with knoppix...it see's the data but won't let me copy or burn the data ...
the thing is ..both knoppix and ubuntu let me read the data...
any help will be greatly appreciated

[CouchMaster]

There is probably a Super User File Manager of some type in Ubuntu (I'm on a Mepis box at the moment and it has one) - On a Live CD you would run it and use "root" as the password. That should give you all the permission you need.

[happyrck]

I'm not clear as to what exactly to do...

[CouchMaster]

If you can find the file manager just click on it - it will ask for a password - type in the word root. It will be just like the home folder but with administrator privileges.
From that point on you can access anything on the computer as a root administrator. Go to the HD in question and start copying the files you need.

[RobLinux]

If you are used to Windows, new to Linux then copying the error messages you get from a terminal will help.


If you are used to UNIX/Linux and have this puzzling problem then (it's not the obvious, do double check) :

You might like to look into something like "System Rescue" http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...n=systemrescue which has a recent release. I think I've come across a bug on certain USB drives where they are read only somewhere (perhaps the NTFS 3G site) which is the reason why a recent release may help.

Another alternative would be to use a Disk Manufacturers utility that actually copies the bytes, without reading filesystems, but that would likely waste space on new disk until someone fixes the partition table; and they may not support the USB disks you have.

Or sometimes you may be able to open external drive's case and connect it termporarily to internal IDE system. Folk do this the other way round building internal drives into USB cases, so you may find that the disk on it's own is more compatible.

[monckywrench]

http://www.planetfez.net/engl223/archive/page2.html

"Knoppix runs as the user ‘knoppix’, to run commands that require root access you can either su to root from the shell or run the command sudo before the command you intend to run. Knoppix runs with the KDE desktop by default. To start with a different desktop manager, you can use some cheat codes. All cheat codes start with knoppix and are then followed with the cheat code. So to start with the Fluxbox window manager, for instance, you would use the cheat code knoppix desktop=fluxbox. If you are more comfortable working with a GUI, your hard drive will be all nicely laid out, iconified, and even mounted right on the desktop. In order to use Konquer to browse all of your hard drive you will need to run one terminal command. Open a shell, su to root and run the command konqueror /home/knoppix/Desktop. This will give you a file browser with root permissions. From here you can navigate through the file structure of your hard drive. If you prefer the command line, simply su to root, then have at it."

Another very useful tool is a BartPE CD:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.911cd.net/forums//lofiver...x.php?f30.html

[happyrck]

OK..got it all copied ...the solution was...get puppy linux 2.17...it has the NTFS 3g already installed...it was a quick drag and drop from there...the NTFS 3g is needed to write to external USB 2.0 drives...
thanks for the help

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by happyrck

OK..got it all copied ...the solution was...get puppy linux 2.17...it has the NTFS 3g already installed...it was a quick drag and drop from there...the NTFS 3g is needed to write to external USB 2.0 drives...
thanks for the help

Thanks for the solution.
Good point to keep in mind.