Old Laptop HDD Access

[jonathan.hugh.jones]

Dear Community,

Apologies if this has been previously addressed, but i can't seem to find the specific scenario I am
facing.

I have the HDD 2.5" from my old ACER laptop which died. I would like try and access my photo's. I have a HDD caddy. The HDD is NOT password protected, but had a windows 7 login name and password. When I connect the drive to my new PC (Windows 10) I can see my user folder and the folder structure within that folder i.e. my docs, pictures etc... but no files are visible.

when i click on properties of my user folder I can see 2500 files etc.... so they are there. But it's not prompting my for a password etc....

Can someone please help?

Thanks, JJ

 

[RealBeast]

Did you try taking ownership of the drive in W10?

See option 2 number 4 here for an explanation of how to do that: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3587-change-owner-file-folder-drive-registry-key-windows-10-a.html