Re: Hard drive failed SBS - recover on another computer?

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From: Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP] (jeff_at_cfisolutions.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:50:02 -0500

As a general rule, if you didn't encrypt the contents, then you normally can
mount a drive in a different computer and review the contents without
issues. In folders where security was provided that prevent default
permissions, you may find that you would need to give the Admininstrator
rights to read, but normally the Administrator is going to be able to see
it.

If the case were that a folder had been specifically locked down to prevent
the Administrator from view it, the Administator can take ownership of the
folder and then grant himself permissions to read.

"Chimin Lee" <2davidI@name.com> wrote in message
news:0dec01c46e9d$e92a97a0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> FOr some reason the Data drive on SBS2003 computer
> stopped showing up in 'my computer' Under 'Manage' it
> says the Drive is Active, shows the correct size - but
> the format type is missing (should be NTFS).
>
> I put the drive in another computer...same issue. I plan
> to run a data recovery/unerase utility on the drive...but
> I am wondering if there is security in SBS2003 or NTFS
> that will prevent me from accessing data on the drive
> (since it is no longer in the original server). I do not
> believe I had any encryption options selected on the
> drive.
>
> C

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