Unable to access image of Windows XP drive

[GreenSkyRoad]

I used partition find and mount to find a Windows XP NTFS partition that I had on one of my older drives.

I was very glad when it was able to create a full image of the 80GB partition.

However, when I mount the partition in Windows 7 using this same software, I am not able to access or copy many of the files on the disk due to NTFS ownership and permissions.

Partition find and mount only allows mounting the image in a "hardware" read only mode for the purposes of data integrity, so I'm not able to modify the permissions on these folders!

How can I get my data off of this image?

Edited May 22, 2011 by GreenSkyRoad

[Tripredacus]

Have you tried taking ownership of the files? I had to do that when I took a data drive from my old XP PC and put it in my Win7 PC. It was initially a pain but it is fine now.

[jaclaz]

Use another mounting tool (better if on a COPY of that image) that allows R/W operations.

Since you are going on a file-based recovery, you can use IMDISK allright:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/

An alternative method should be that of using TESTDISK on the image to just copy the files:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

jaclaz