Thread: permissions in the way

long story, here's condensed version: 8.04x64 ultimate up-graded 3 times 10.04, worked got real slow , crashed hard saying bad sectors , such. fixed repeatedly suse11.1 disk. hard drive ok whole time physically (reformated , checked). cloned new 1tb , installed dual-boot mint9. worked fine @ first then, after updates or time, started doing weird crashes. re-boots worked till today when got dreaded "error no such device 12345xxxxxxxxxx - grub rescue". unable repair time.

so, want recover files linux has turned windows , says i'm not owner of these files , won't let me move them or copy them. says owner #1000. ????????????????????????

i'm accessing them live mint9, same disk installed with.
can tell me how eliminate personal file permissions? want unfettered access @ time files under conditions.

tried "open administrator" but, lets me copy within same 1tb hard drive , not hard drive including usb flash drives:confused , internal 500gig.

password root on live cd? can't find anywhere - thought root or toor or password

posted bth73

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password root on live cd? can't find anywhere - thought root or toor or password

i have no idea mint cds (ask in mint forums) there no root password required on ubuntu live cds.

fsck on bad drive.

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