lol I didn't know this was still possible with Win10 and Win11, thought Windows was encrypted by default now and that bitlocker would prevent this? I'll have to setup a virtual dual-boot system to try it out to see what happens.A few years ago...a guy with a windoze Laptop told me this laptop has an uncrackable password.
I booted to my Mint live session and mounted his windoze internal HDD...should have seen the look on his face...priceless.
Sorry, but it DOES still work... on a fresh install of Windows 10 even (tested just now on bare metal). You can clear the password of any user on the system, including Administrator. But it is not a straightforward tool to get started and you must read the documentation... which, strangely enough, says it only works on Windows versions through 8.1. I've only used it a few times with Windows 10, but it's always worked when needed, and I'm sure @APTI can confirm much more success.
Windows 11 is not always encrypted by default (see here and here), and you can take care during the install to ensure it is not encrypted, if you want. Of course chntpw will not defeat encryption, and Win 11 may be encrypted more often than not.
Exactly what I was thinking but forgot to actually write it out.
And TPM could be abused for Anti-piracy with more DRM and to lock down your pc, so that companies could control what you are allowed to have on your pc and what is illegal to have on your pc.
my impression was that the OP was editing a hard drive. in order to make it network accessible you would have to build a computer around it or modify the HDD to operate on a network which I think is not what was asked. Sort of like killing mosquitoes with nuclear bombs
No nuclear bombs needed but if networking fs is not an option, then NTFS will not do for linux and any linux FS will not do for Windows. My point was that. ACL between OSes will work only at the level of networking FS. one can also get NAS for this.
I have tried your solution by issuing
but the output is: ntfs-3g-mount: failed to access mountpoint /mnt/DATA2: No such file or directory
did you create a directory /mnt/DATA2 including the capital letters? the message seems to state that the folder does not exist. It must exist prior to the mount command and you must have access to it.
No the directory is in general at /media/miketlap/DATA2 and this exists. But I tried via /mnt if this is the right way. In past I had no issues with /media/miketlap/DATA2 as mount point. Now if I try the same I get an error message if the drive is unmounted (which is logical), but when I mount it I get his message:
So how can I mount this point without this issue?
Basic linux time. the directory you are mounting to has to exist. That means it must be there first. If /mnt/DATA2 is not a directory already then you SHOULD get the error when mounting. You have to put in a path to an accessible directory. such as
Yes it makes sense that the directory has to exist before, but if I try to execute the command on command line without having mounted the drive before I get this error message:
After that if I mount the drive via the graphical file explorer by Ubuntu, and execute the same command again in the command line and the drive gets properly mounted. Do I need to mount everytime the drive via the UI before to get access? That doesn't make much sense to me.
now I am confused. I got out of that, that you are mounting the drive after mounting the drive. That means you are mounting it twice. You only mount it once and long as you can see it then you are fine. to make it permanent you need to edit the fstab file in the /etc directory.
Yes I know. The drive gets mounted properly, but the full access still remains (i.e. full green color). This is something I don't want, because I want to restrict my partition to me only and not to everyone. Ok, I am working on my own laptop alone, but I also don't want to let full access to the partition.
