I have / had a 9+ year old system that was running Win 7 up until a couple of weeks ago when it lost the will to live. The motherboard died and given it's age there was no way I'd be able to get the same one or even one with the same socket so I decided to scrap it and build new. Besides, Win 7 is going EoS soon so I'd have been upgrading to Win 10 and why not start fresh, not to mention that I have no idea whether the CPU or RAM were impacted by whatever went wrong with the system.
So, I've built my new system and did NOT reuse the SSD from the old system but instead set it aside in the hope that I'd be able to recover so files from it. Right now the OS is running off a new SSD and I have the SSD from my old system installed as a second drive in the new system. I can see the old SSD and can access its contents but when I try to access anything in the Users folder I get the Windows "You don't have permission to access this folder" warning and can't get any deeper into the folder to look for the files I'm trying to recover.
How can I get access to the contents of that folder or any folder where I encounter the permissions block?
My next experiment may be to remove the new SSD and try to boot off the old SSD in the hope it will come to life. But I have low expectations for that since the system is filled with all new hardware from the motherboard on up. The only other device I harvested from the old system was the DVD drive.
I'm hoping someone has a better solution they can offer that will allow me to access the drive from the current configuration so I won't have to go through what will undoubtedly be a rough process booting from the old drive in the new system...if it can even be done.
Oh, one other thing, I have the Win 7 install CD that was used to build the old system so if that helps in resolving the issues we have that at our disposal.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Chris
So, I've built my new system and did NOT reuse the SSD from the old system but instead set it aside in the hope that I'd be able to recover so files from it. Right now the OS is running off a new SSD and I have the SSD from my old system installed as a second drive in the new system. I can see the old SSD and can access its contents but when I try to access anything in the Users folder I get the Windows "You don't have permission to access this folder" warning and can't get any deeper into the folder to look for the files I'm trying to recover.
How can I get access to the contents of that folder or any folder where I encounter the permissions block?
My next experiment may be to remove the new SSD and try to boot off the old SSD in the hope it will come to life. But I have low expectations for that since the system is filled with all new hardware from the motherboard on up. The only other device I harvested from the old system was the DVD drive.
I'm hoping someone has a better solution they can offer that will allow me to access the drive from the current configuration so I won't have to go through what will undoubtedly be a rough process booting from the old drive in the new system...if it can even be done.
Oh, one other thing, I have the Win 7 install CD that was used to build the old system so if that helps in resolving the issues we have that at our disposal.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Chris