[Mid_Life_Crisis]

A friend's computer died. They would love to be able to recover pictures from it. I have a laptop so I couldn't install it in my computer so I took the hard drive out and put it in a USB case.
No matter what I try to do with this drive I get access denied errors.
Is there anything I can do or do I need to install it in a tower as the primary drive?

 

[makinu1der2]

Re: Access rights to second hard drive

You may need to take ownership of the files.

Access Denied Error or File/Folder Permission Issues on an External Drive

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

Re: Access rights to second hard drive

Thank you for the answer.
The problem is that when I try to take ownership, it tells me access is denied. I'm looking for something more brute force, I think.
I forgot to mention that the laptop I am using is Win7.

 

[Networks]

Re: Access rights to second hard drive

try ftk imager from access data

 

[Media]

Re: Access rights to second hard drive

download a live linux distro and mount the hdd and copy what you need from it. good luck!

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

Re: Access rights to second hard drive

I got it. Turns out you need a "Professional" release of Windows.
Thanks for the suggestions.