Question about mounting a filesystem

[Anthony Papillion]

Hello Everyone,

One of the few remaining computers in my household running Windows went down
due to a registry corruption this morning. I've decided to reinstall the OS
but want to rescue my data off of the filesystem before I hose it. When I
tried to log into the Windows Recovery Console, it wouldn't let me no matter
what I did so I grabbed my trusty Ubuntu LiveCD and booted the system.

The LiveCD mounted the hard drive as /mnt/hda2 (/mnt/hda1 is my recovery
partition) but it mounted it as read only. That's fine as reading is all I
actually need to do with this drive. So I plugged in my portable USB drive
thinking I'd just copy everything off my old filesystem to the removable
drive and I found that I couldn't use it because I wasn't the "owner".  I
could see the drive, but I couldn't write or delete anything to or from it.

How do I get around this?
I've tried chgown or whatever the command is but it won't do it. It tells me
permission was denied.

Help please!

Thanks in Advance,
Anthony
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