Corupted windows xp install. Need files

[Daebleak]

Hello. I have a laptop that has a corupted windows xp install. I am running ubuntu also.

I need to get a folder out of windows, and onto a flash drive. when I try to do this I get a permission error. Is there a way to change the permission of the file through ubuntu, and get it to copy?

Thanks for any helpful input!

[techieMoe]

You should be able to boot into Ubuntu, mount your XP partition, and copy the files off that way. Or is that what is giving you trouble?

[Jonathan183]

Assuming you can boot Ubuntu, open a terminal and type the following

mount
cat /etc/fstab
ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -l
sudo fdisk -l

the -l has a small L not a one for both the above commands ... this will show mounted partitions/filesystems, list of files systems to be mounted, and disk partition structure.

Ed: and do you get the error when you try to access the file or when you try to copy it to a pen drive?

[Daebleak]

It is mounted. When i try to drag the folder to the usb drive, it says

"The folder cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to create it in the destination."

[Daebleak]

For whatever reason, either the laptop or ubuntu did not like my 16GB patriot flash drive. when i tried a 2 GB one it worked just fine

[Jonathan183]

Glad you are sorted ... odd the other drive did not mount read/write.

[Daebleak]

Yah. I was working on a laptop for a guy who is a captain morgan mascot.
he needed all of his travel data and bottle signing pictures.

I think the issue was that I was running ubuntu off of that flash drive since the HD was all screwed up. A 23 hour HD nuke fixed that.