Re: Access NTFS drive by mounting in another machine

From: S. Pidgorny (slavickp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:07:03 +1000

Sure there are ways around: as the administrator, you can take ownership
over files and directories and reassign permissions after that. Unless EFS
was used, you have full access. 

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Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message
news:#$Nn5motEHA.2116@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>
> -- 
> ####################
> ##  PH, London
> ####################
> Apologies for the duplicate posting - I "missed" my intended newsgroup!
>
>

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