SimpleSi Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 I've got a teacher's daughter's laptop at home and the Vista OS is borked and won't boot I'm trying to get her data off but it won't let me see/copy the contents of her Documents folder - my bootable Bart PE XP disc says its password protected but doesn't give me the option of entering the password (Which I know) to get at the data Any suggestions on how to get around this please? regards Simon
t_h Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Never used the Bart PE disc, but provided the drive isn't encrypted I'd use a Linux live CD to mount the filesystem and backup the data. 1
Michael Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Have you tried repairing Vista? It's actually pretty good and an improvement over XP.
SimpleSi Posted October 11, 2009 Author Posted October 11, 2009 Downloading latest Ubuntu DVD to see what that thinks of it -ta Tried repairing it using the Vista repair CD but it just says it can't repair it- got it back to showing up as an OS on the boot screen but says it had an unknown type of error and suggests re-install. Can't recover to previous restore point as there isn't one regards Simon
FN-GM Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Plug the hard drive into a windows machine and take ownership of the folder.
Michael Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Plug the hard drive into a windows machine and take ownership of the folder I agree if a repair isn't successful, unless the files are encrypted...
SimpleSi Posted October 11, 2009 Author Posted October 11, 2009 Its a laptop and I haven't got a desktop machine or a caddy to put it into regards Simon
Ignatius Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) I did exactly the same data recovery a week ago using this tutorial and the latest Ubuntu desktop live CD. It worked like a treat! Edited October 11, 2009 by Ignatius
Michael Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Its a laptop and I haven't got a desktop machine or a caddy to put it into If it's a laptop SATA hard drive, you can use the same data and power cables as with desktop SATA hard drives.
srochford Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Is BartPE actually saying "password protected" or is it just denying access? If it's the former then I've no idea what's going on but if it's the latter then you should just be able to take ownership in BartPE. I think the ACL format has changed in Vista; with an XP disc, you could put it in any other machine or boot from Bart etc and you would have access. With Vista this isn't the case but it's perfectly possible to take ownership and then (if necessary) give yourself rights to the files.
SimpleSi Posted October 11, 2009 Author Posted October 11, 2009 I've booted it off an Ubunutu CD and its copying the folders fine Thanks for suggestions regards Simon
t_h Posted October 11, 2009 Posted October 11, 2009 Glad it worked, I do it all the time. I always have a distro or two in my CD wallet.
SimpleSi Posted October 11, 2009 Author Posted October 11, 2009 (edited) Since I found this "special" BartPE CD in a 2nd hand-machine - I've been using it for the past 2 years to boot up broken machines - when I checked my CD wallet - the last ubunutu live CD said Breezy on it Once the copying is finished (42GB of stuff!) I'll use the CD to see if I can create a bootable USB key version of it. regards Simon Edited October 12, 2009 by SimpleSi
Ignatius Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Since I found this "special" BartPE CD in a 2nd hand-machine - I've been using it for the past 2 years to boot up broken machines ... So you don't mean the usual BartPE that's created from an XP installation disk? Can you elaborate why it's "special"? I tried using the standard BartPE that I created in the Vista laptop but it didn't like the hardware so that's why I resorted to the Ubuntu live CD.
SimpleSi Posted October 12, 2009 Author Posted October 12, 2009 Its got lots of stuff on it that I doubt were properly licensed! regards Simon
mpe Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Downloading latest Ubuntu DVD to see what that thinks of it -ta You might do better going to SystemRescueCd Might not look as pretty as Ubuntu but is a lot smaller and has all the tools you'll need.
Ignatius Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Its got lots of stuff on it that I doubt were properly licensed! Nuff said
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