Okay, I am using INSERT off of the Ultimate Boot CD.
My goal is to try and copy all of the contents of my hard drive to an external USB hard drive.
At first when I clicked the button to mount the two drives it would mount them as read-only, so I couldn't copy anything.
Now I use the console and mount them myself with the mount command. Now they are mounted read-write.
But now when I try and copy it tells me
cp: cannon create directory 'sda1/hda1' : Operation not permitted.
So my question is how do I get the apporpriate privileges to perform the requested operation?
BACKGROUND:
The NTFS structure on my hard drive is corrupted and hence I am unable to boot windows or even use the XP CD's recovery console or repair install. What I am hoping to do is copy all of my important files to my external using INSERT and then just reformat and start all over with my main hard drive.
ALTERNATIVE:
I also have this program called Partition image which will copy an entire partition. But since my original partition is corrupted, if i tried to image it onto my external, wont the partition created on the external also be corrupted?
Thank you so much for any advice, this problem has been plaguing me for over two weeks