RawCopy

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https://github.com/jschicht/RawCopy

This a console application that copy files off NTFS volumes by using low level disk reading method.

This tool will let you copy files that usually is not accessible because the system has locked them. For instance the registry hives like SYSTEM and SAM. Or files inside the "SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION". Or any file on the volume.

There is also more great utilities by Joakim Schicht - https://github.com/jschicht?tab=repositories

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The license is open source, specifically Creative Commons, which isn't supposed to be used for software:

https://github.com/jschicht/RawCopy/issues/3

Regardless I can see this getting around what I've seen in Windows as an increasingly tedious NTFS permissions system. It might be more secure but it's definitely more annoying.