Offical rwx files taht are in fact --- files!

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> François Huot wrote:
>> Here is a difficult case: a friend brought me a hard drive from a
>> Windows that has crashed and it wants to retrieve files. After I
>> connect the disc to my Ubutu 8.10 with a USB port, I can see the files
>> with the  ls command: the files are all rwxrwxrwx ... the problem is
>> that when I want to see or copy these files, I 'm told that I don't
>> have permission to do so, either in graphics mode (using a file
>> manager) or from the command line (with cp ). I obviously used chmod
>> command to confirm the rwx attributes of files, but it is useless...
>> I'm never allowed to see, copy or transfer these files...

> I've encountered this problem on my dual boot system after Windows XP
> has shut down uncleanly [crashed]. Windows writes something to the
> drive, which doesn't get reset when the system crashes, and this makes
> it unreadable or unmountable [can't remember which it was] until you can
> successfully boot into Windows again, and subsequently attain a clean
> shutdown of Windows.
> 
> I don't know of any workarounds, sorry.

You _can_ fsck the disk.