Well, it had trouble reading the specific files that I couldn't even move when I had access to w10 on the same drive too. HDDs are so weird, the only indication of this I had at all were these really long freezes I used to get, then suddenly it wanted to scan and fix (which failed) and I found...
Yeah, tried everything, it just goes into a loop, restarting and trying to repair again and again... just need to get the data off it as I assume it's a hopeless disk, individual files have already been corrupted randomly (and certainly not repaired after any attempt)...
Yeah, changing permissions like that is what I tried but as mentioned the hardware corruption is seemingly not letting me finish changing them, does a few files but then stops, saying the disk isn't ready, wanting to fix it (but that fails too...)
Issue with a live usb os is that it's extremely slow to even access the data (besides copying)... took half an hour just to confirm how many gb there were... and with the limited folders I could access from a usb adaptor to w11 it seems to be normal speed (for the former I thought it was the hdd...
As I said though, I try to change it from the security tab etc. and it fails, every option there seems to be fails... I just don't understand why it's just this one folder and not the many others too, though, or why I can access it from a linux live os but not w11...
And what that .reg does is...
Keeps saying "click continue to permanently get access to this folder" (which obviously doesn't work... assigning permissions in the security tab doesn't either, keeps saying it's not ready... I was able to access it using a USB live OS...)