OT: mount NTFS drive on Windows while ignoring permissions

[Tom Metro]

If you take a boot drive from another Windows computer, attach it to a 
USB interface, and attempt to access the files, you'll find that home 
directories and other portions of the disk are inaccessible for 
permissions reasons, even to the administrator.

While an administrator can forcibly take ownership of all files mounted 
on the system, that makes an undesirable permanent change in the settings.

(The way things could be made inaccessible to the super user was alway a 
major annoyance with Windows. In this case, the restriction does little 
to provide any real security.)

Any Windows guru know if it is possible to mount an NTFS volume while 
forcing the OS to ignore the permissions?

I've searched for this on a couple of occasions, and have never turned 
up anything useful. On the last round I ran across info that OS X 
supports an "ignore permissions" option when mounting NTFS drives. 
Though not of much value to me, as I'm pretty sure Linux will do 
likewise, and my end goal is being able to use Windows-native tools to 
access the drive.

One possibility might be running Windows in a VM under Linux, but 
without "laundering" the drive through something like a loopback NFS 
mount, I'm not sure that'll prevent Windows from honoring the 
permissions specified on the drive.

  -Tom

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