How do I change permissions of folders on a hard drive from a booted USB drive I am trying to save my files on my Hard Drive that has a crashed OS. I created a Bootable USB with Ubuntu and successfully booted.

I can see my folders, but I can't actually open them because I don't have permission.

I tried to do this:

sudo chmod 777 -R Pictures


Where Pictures is the name of the folder I want to change permissions to.

All I want to be able to do is to copy the folders &amp; files from my Hard Drive to my USB drive.

How do I do that?
For anyone else that has this issue, the guys over at AskUbuntu solved it for me.

You can find the answer, along with other good answers, here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/563054/how-do-i-change-permissions-of-folders-on-a-hard-drive-from-a-booted-usb-drive