kenn wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm still trying to recover data from a drive that won't mount, and in > spite of lots of help from this list, I haven't accomplished it yet. > > My current plan of attack is to try to boot on Knoppix and copy to a USB > thumb drive. > > I've learned the obvious stuff ... I've mounted my hard drive, changed > the mount to RW, unselected the the "read only" button on the > Properties-->Device tab, changed all permission to "Read and Write" but > i STILL get some folders that are locked and give the error message, > "You do not have permissions to read this file." > > Any ideas what am I doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Kenn
you haven't actually created a mount point (or DIR) Also - did you partition and create a file system on the USB device ? use 'sudo' before each command in a terminal; sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmp orw,userid=knoppix NOTE: hda1 (the 1st of 4 possible ATA/IDE drives, usually) assumes that's the HDD you want to copy from -change/alter accordingly now go and copy files... Caveats; -- USB drive/stick needs to be mounted as well - and likely uses /mnt/sda1 -or- /mnt/ubd1 (instead of /mnt/tmp) -- if using ntfs - just copying shouldn't be a problem __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
