Trouble with data recovery

[ItsLocBaby]

Friend's c drive crashed and I need to grab some music off of it. Tried to switch ownership of the his user folder to local administrator (e : /users/XXXX) so I could grant myself administrator rights over the folder. That ended up giving me "The request could not be completed because of an i/o device error" error message multiple times, specifically when trying to switch over ownership of some of the files in /AppData. I suspected physical damage was done to the drive itself. Started looking deeper into it and I noticed that the file system of the drive was RAW. Thought it was physical damage for sure now, but I could use a second opinion. Anyways, is there any way that I can force admin over his user folder so I can get to his desktop to grab that music? Or maybe even create a mirrored image of the drive so I can explore it freely without restrictions? I'm running out of ideas here.

 

[ItsLocBaby]

32 views and no one is interested? Come on, I thought this was the place to go for problems like this.

 

[tomatthe]

You could try using cacls.exe to change permissions on the files.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490872.aspx

May want to first boot up to a winpe cd, or connect the drive to a different computer if possible before trying this.

 

[ItsLocBaby]

You could try using cacls.exe to change permissions on the files.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490872.aspx

May want to first boot up to a winpe cd, or connect the drive to a different computer if possible before trying this.

His drive is hooked up to my own PC. I took it out and popped it in there. I'll give cacls a try though; does this work for entire folders or just individual files?

 

[tomatthe]

Folders, files, whatever you want it to do.