Recovering data from HDD without password

[jacobweaver800]

My best friend has an old laptop that he want's me to recover the data off of, I took out the hard drive and plugged it into my own PC. We discovered the drive (Windows 7) has a password on the account and him and his parents don't know the password. Would there be a way for me to extract the data without the password?

 

[bignastyid]

Forum rules prohibit helping with such issues. Thread closed.

 

[mgallo848]

I don't think anyone here is allowed to show you how to circumvent password protected files/PC's. There is now way anyone here can validate that you or your friend is the rightfull owner of the data.