copy hard disc data, with permissions
 

Hello,

I wanted to install linux on my dad's pc.
The installation crashed, and his data is loosly on a windows partition on his
drive, without a OS. Reinstalling doesn't work for the boot disc doesn't wants to be read.

I have attached his HD to my system and I've finaly found how to copy his
files to my system.

Everything went fine untill I went to look at those files.
The ROOT got only 2 commands: read and execute.

I need to be able to use the files ...
I need to have the files have a chmod of 7777...

Please tell me how I can help this.



Kind regards

Are you running linux on your pc?

If you are you may be able to achieve what you are trying to do by remounting dad's hard drive in read/write mode....

where hdb1 is the patition on dads drive you need to re-mount as read write.

you can find out what the partition number is if you dont know it with...

hope this helps...

linux_terror

no, it didn't worked :(

Could this be because I used the linking dir?
(/mnt/windows/)
or do I need to use /hdb ?

try the device...but try this first..

take a look at the output and see if there is a partition number like hdb1...

then plug the partition number into the mount cammand i posted earlier... if you are still having problems after that please post the output of

and i'll take a look.

linux_teror