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July 13th, 2013 12:00

Recovering files from hard drive of laptop with failed motherboard

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I am trying to access the files on my laptop hard disk which I have now connected to my desk top as the mother board on my dell 1558 Studio has failed. I can see the files and can navigate to "My Documents" and then I hit problems. If I try and open this folder I get a pop up window that says "You don't currently have permission to access this folder". I desperately need to recover a number of files. I am the administrator on the laptop. Is there anything that i can do?

Englebert

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July 13th, 2013 13:00

You need to take ownership of the files.  If the system is running WIndows 7 or Vista, that's done this way:

technet.microsoft.com/.../cc753659.aspx

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July 16th, 2013 07:00

Hello Englebert,

In addition to what Ejn63 has siad, you may also refer to the Microsoft Article.

Hope this helps!

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