Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Two internal drives crashed in G5 at the same fucking time.
Got OS back through recovering time machine backup, via DVD-boot.
Other drive(s) / partitions are all "locked", can't even be unlocked via chmod 777 in terminal (I'm root, there are no other users).
If I clone these 'locked' partitions to an other hd, will I have a chance permissions are set newly, and I can haz access again?

Worth a try if you can be bothered, but could be whatever problem's stopping the permissions will stop a clone. Would be interested to know the answer, though.

It did fucking work!
CCC just did it, ignoring all 'permissions' and screwed bits or whatever, simply cloned it.
The drive(s) as a whole though, did take some time (bit over 1GB/min).

Now data is avaiable on a fresh partition of a new external drive.

I am happy.