New air, copying files from desktop to hard disk requires authentication

Sorry if this has been discussed before but I learned today that Lion requires you give read and write permissions to "everyone" on the hard disk otherwise you have to authenticate every time you try to copy a file from the desktop to the hard disk.

As is you can only copy from an NTFS drive. You cannot write to one from OS X without third-party support such as NTFS 12.0.39.

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That's odd - if you open Disk Utility (Applications->Utilities) and select the disk(s), how are they formatted? If you're only going to be used with your Mac, they should be formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
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Hello,
I use macbook pro (bought few months ago from the US) with 10.6.3 OS. I had a 500GB hard disk and had MacOS and Windows 7 installed through Parallel's Plesk.
Few days ago, the computer frooze and i had to reboot. Once i reboot, i got the flashing folder with question mark logo. Googled and found out that my hard disk may have crushed. I replaced it with another 500GB hard disk.
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1. I installed MacOS again on the new hard drive
2. Got a SATA disk connecter and connected my old drive, MacOS recognized the disk and the two partitions were opened with errors. The main partition where i have all my files were there. I actually was able to get most of my files.
3. I used migration wizard to move all my settings, applications to the new hard disk but i failed to migration the /users folder. It keeps saying calculating... and never finishes.
4. I tried to copy files manually but it seems like all files are locked! I could not change the file permissions.
I googled and found out a software called testdisk to repair partitions, followed all steps but failed. I kept getting message that the partiion table is corrupt or resource busy. I run pdisk and get the following error message:
pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/rdisk1'
pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/rdisk0'
Partition map (with 2048 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk2'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Applepartitionmap Apple 15 @ 1
2: AppleDriverATAPI Macintosh 456689 @ 16 (892.0M)
3: Apple_HFS MacOSX 3632472 @ 456706 ( 6.9G)
4: Apple_Free 4 @ 4089178
Device block size=2048, Number of Blocks=4089182 (7.8G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
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Googled and found out that my hard disk may have crushed. I replaced it with another 500GB hard disk.
If this drive physically died, then it would have been covered under the warranty, since the machine is only a few months old. However, that does not sound like what happened.
2. Got a SATA disk connecter and connected my old drive, MacOS recognized the disk and the two partitions were opened with errors. The main partition where i have all my files were there. I actually was able to get most of my files.
3. I used migration wizard to move all my settings, applications to the new hard disk but i failed to migration the /users folder. It keeps saying calculating... and never finishes.
If you're able to mount this drive, then it wasn't physically damaged and did not need to be replaced. In the future, you need to verify that the disk is dead before spending the money on replacing it!
In order to repair the drive, you can try Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. If Disk Utility is unable to repair it, try [DiskWarrior|http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html] or [TechTool Pro|http://www.micromat.com>. I'm not sure what this "testdisk" software is, I've never heard of it.
If these three utilities are not able to repair the drive, there's no repairing it. Your only choice will be to use a data recovery tool, like [Data Rescue|http://www.prosofteng.com> or [File Salvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]. If those don't work, you'll have to pay the big money for a data recovery service.
Of course, all this could have been easily avoided. You MUST have backups of any data you don't want to lose! If you had a backup, you could have simply erased the hard drive and restored from the backup. For the future, see my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for assistance getting started with backups.

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 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Energy Saver ▹ Power Adapter
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