Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

adwilgo · 01-27-2008, 10:20 PM

My laptop went down and I picked up a hard drive enclosure to recover the files. I got it set up and can access most of the folders, except for the my documents folders for the former main user. Any ideas? The only difference I can see is that that user was password protected where the others were not.

Thanks all

**Deleted090308** · 01-28-2008, 11:26 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

Sorry, but I have to ask:
Why do you want access to "the former main user's" documents?

adwilgo · 01-28-2008, 12:11 PM

Geez I just realized how that reads. When I said former main user i meant was refering to the computer in the past tense not the user.

The laptop is mine, and I am/was the main user on there. And I kept putting off backing up my pictures/financial files and etc. So of course it decided to go bad on me. I had my user profile on there password protected, but none of the others are.

So when the enclosure is picked up as a drive I can open up any of the other files. Just not the file with my documents and all that in there for my users profile. I know the login and password and all that but it doesn't prompt me for any of that. It gives me an error saying that access to that folder is denied. And the only reason I can think of is that my user name was password protected, but when seeing the drive as a second hard drive it has no way of asking me for that info.

I really appreciate any help I can get. There are wedding and honeymoon and first home pictures on there that are irreplaceable. And I would hate to have to take the time to recreate my finance spreadsheets and what not.

Thanks

**Deleted090308** · 01-28-2008, 12:23 PM

Try this: How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP.

01-27-2008, 10:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
adwilgo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Laptop Hard Drive Recovery My laptop went down and I picked up a hard drive enclosure to recover the files. I got it set up and can access most of the folders, except for the my documents folders for the former main user. Any ideas? The only difference I can see is that that user was password protected where the others were not. Thanks all

01-28-2008, 11:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Laptop Hard Drive Recovery Hi, welcome to TSF. Sorry, but I have to ask: Why do you want access to "the former main user's" documents?

01-28-2008, 12:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
adwilgo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Re: Laptop Hard Drive Recovery Geez I just realized how that reads. When I said former main user i meant was refering to the computer in the past tense not the user. The laptop is mine, and I am/was the main user on there. And I kept putting off backing up my pictures/financial files and etc. So of course it decided to go bad on me. I had my user profile on there password protected, but none of the others are. So when the enclosure is picked up as a drive I can open up any of the other files. Just not the file with my documents and all that in there for my users profile. I know the login and password and all that but it doesn't prompt me for any of that. It gives me an error saying that access to that folder is denied. And the only reason I can think of is that my user name was password protected, but when seeing the drive as a second hard drive it has no way of asking me for that info. I really appreciate any help I can get. There are wedding and honeymoon and first home pictures on there that are irreplaceable. And I would hate to have to take the time to recreate my finance spreadsheets and what not. Thanks Last edited by adwilgo; 01-28-2008 at 12:13 PM.

01-28-2008, 12:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Laptop Hard Drive Recovery Try this: How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP.