Access NTFS drive by mounting in another machine

From: Philip Herlihy (foof8501_at_herlihy.eu.veil.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:46:48 +0100

A scenario: Machine A has a horrid virus and we want to salvage the data
from the disk.

We take the NTFS drive out of A and mount it (eg external USB housing or
adapter) on another machine B, hoping to get access to the data without
running any of the malware that would start if the disk was being used to
boot.

However, NTFS file permissions prevent access to the disk when mounted in
machine B. Any way round this?

I'd guess that if A and B are in the same domain then a user of A could log
on to B and access the disk "legally" but in most cases the machines will be
unrelated. Is there any way to get to the data? Maybe one answer is to
create another partition (if there's space) using BootitNG or Partition
Magic, install a second copy of Windows and boot from that as Administrator.
Comments welcome. 

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Apologies for the duplicate posting - I "missed" my intended newsgroup!

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