I have a Samsung DVD player from around year 2010 I want to throw away. The device has an HD where I have some recordings from TV. I want to keep a clip that features an interview to my father in a local TV station. I cannot copy it to a DVD due to builtin copy protection system so I thought I could just remove the HD and plug it into my PC. As far as I can tell, it's a regular 250 GB Seagate mechanic drive with SATA interface and a FAT32 partition.
Windows 10 Home recognises the drive just fine, I can browse all directories and I can see several *.MPG files that probably have the data I need. However, when I try to open or copy such files I always get some kind of "Access Denied" error message. Windows explorer warns me that I need to grant administrator privileges to copy the file but it doesn't work.
If I mount an image of the partition (made with Macrium Reflect) it still exhibits the same symptoms.
How can this protection system possibly work? FAT32 does not have Access Control Lists and I haven't installed any driver or software from Samsung. I'm interested in both circumventing the protection (private copy is legal in my country) and having a clue about how it works.
