Recovered hard drive need advise

[poehere]

OK everyone this is another first for me and can I say it is really strange to see this one. I have a Maxtor with many problems. Repaired fine and have cloned. Now I am working with the clone on the drive and have discovered that there are 16 users on this drive. Some have put passwords on their user accounts and asked for their documents to be private. I think that is the explaination in English. But anyhow all the people who have not asked to have documents private and had password I was able to save all their files and am able to open them up. My problem now is that when I save the files with private privilage I can save the files but when I go to check them I keep getting not accessable private. I do understand how to over come this in a clients computer who has done this after I have backed up their system. I reload all their documents and go to admin privilage and get access back to them. I know that if I try to transfer that document to another system after doing that it will lock up the document again and you can't get it back. But how do I do it for a clone so that I can open up the saved folders and make sure they are fine before giving back this drive. I do not want to take privilage for this folder and then think it is fine and give it back and they can not get into it. I did see a place in PC3000 to take off user password on drive. I have tried this but it is not working and still have locked folders after clone of drive.

Please no laughs 16 users I am not sure where people come from and what they think this poor little hard drive is. Their system only has 512 memory on it and a very slow processor. It is not a file server or a main frame and I tell them they have caused their own problems in all of this mess.

Any suggestions on how I can get privilage back to these cloned files so I can give it back to the person and he can use it with out having file locked out not accessable message. Sorry translating from French to English and what it says here for us.


Thanks for all your help

[pcimage]

Use something like Winhex, UFS explorer to extract the data.

These do not care for user password or priveleges.

Sean

[cryoborgofthevenus]

Yes, WinHex will be enough

[poehere]

Where do I get it. Do I have to download it. I looked to see and I do not have it with my material. Thanks I will see where I can find it. Is there a special version that I need.

[cryoborgofthevenus]

WinHex : http://www.x-ways.net

You need the professional version

[shaun]

What does a potential hdd password have to do with file systems rights? Nothing - you just need to mount the drive on an OS which does not care about access control. Assuming it is a Windows drive, only NTFS would handle access control, so mount it under any Linux (Knoppix for example) and you can check whatever you want. The ntfs-3g driver does not care about what Windows says

[pcimage]

Or, I assume you have Data Extractor with your PC3000?

Use that.