Copying Protected Files from Windows XP

Salty9 · 05-26-2007, 06:38 PM

I am trying to move some protected files from an old windows XP drive with ntfs which can only be opened as a slave drive. Has anyone here done something similar? Thanks for any info.

Salty

jiml8 · 05-26-2007, 07:25 PM

Sure. What's the issue?

If you mount the drive in Linux, protection doesn't follow. You can read any file on the drive, regardless of permissions that are set on it.

sjb007 · 06-04-2007, 04:45 AM

Sorry to jump on this thread - while regarding this question, just out of curiosity - how would this apply to the new vista premium edition and drivelocker software, would the drive still be mountable and viewable under linux?

Salty9 · 06-05-2007, 05:27 PM

I finally recovered the files by creating a small windows partition on my linux drive and copying the files to it. Windows not only doesn't play well with other OS, at times, it doesn't play with itself.

jschiwal · 06-05-2007, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sjb007

Sorry to jump on this thread - while regarding this question, just out of curiosity - how would this apply to the new vista premium edition and drivelocker software, would the drive still be mountable and viewable under linux?

I think that uses encryption, so the files you would copy would be encrypted. You would need to copy such files with vista running to decode them on the fly, rather than mounting the partition from linux.