[SOLVED] safe to enable access from old HDD

[meowizie]

I had a HDD fail me on my laptop and just switched and clean installed (windows 10) onto an SSD today. I am very optimistic about restoring my original HDD. Something happened to the bootloader and I messed with it and kinda made it worse but that's besides the point because I have been able able to view the folder I'm going to talk about via HIREN PE.

I tried to access to the user folder of my HDD on my SSD and it said i needed to get permission for it and it loaded for some time and ultimately gave me this message.


I looked into how to do this (it seems a bit confusing honest), but my question is more about whether this is safe to do if i do plan to have this device running again.
I can only do so much with HIREN since it's just a bootable flash drive and i need to use my actual OS so i can access specific file types, and this is my original hard drive so I don't want to tamper too much with it. I already went the path of just googling and watching videos before asking people that actually know more than me and I plan don't plan to go back that path again!

 

[CountMike]

I had a HDD fail me on my laptop and just switched and clean installed (windows 10) onto an SSD today. I am very optimistic about restoring my original HDD. Something happened to the bootloader and I messed with it and kinda made it worse but that's besides the point because I have been able able to view the folder I'm going to talk about via HIREN PE.

I tried to access to the user folder of my HDD on my SSD and it said i needed to get permission for it and it loaded for some time and ultimately gave me this message.


I looked into how to do this (it seems a bit confusing honest), but my question is more about whether this is safe to do if i do plan to have this device running again.
I can only do so much with HIREN since it's just a bootable flash drive and i need to use my actual OS so i can access specific file types, and this is my original hard drive so I don't want to tamper too much with it. I already went the path of just googling and watching videos before asking people that actually know more than me and I plan don't plan to go back that path again!

If disk wasn't "messed up" from a virus, than its quite safe to open and use it.
You could also BOOT with any Linux Live USB and extract or change/write any files from disk,it doesn't care about Windows restrictions or can be infected with Windows virus/malware.

 

[meowizie]

If disk wasn't "messed up" from a virus, than its quite safe to open and use it.
You could also BOOT with any Linux Live USB and extract or change/write any files from disk,it doesn't care about Windows restrictions or can be infected with Windows virus/malware.

No there wasn't a virus. So if i am able to get this hard drive running again, I wouldn't get permission errors while running because I "unlocked it", so to speak?

I've heard about it, can Linux Live run the programs that were already on my system, because I have like Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint data I need to retrieve and it would be helpful if I could have a preview of at least the icons.

 

[USAFRet]

I tried to access to the user folder

Look into Take Ownership.
That User folder is permission locked to that original NTFS user.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

How to Take Ownership of a Folder in Windows 10? - GeeksforGeeks

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www.geeksforgeeks.org

 

[meowizie]

Look into Take Ownership.
That User folder is permission locked to that original NTFS user.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

How to Take Ownership of a Folder in Windows 10? - GeeksforGeeks

A Computer Science portal for geeks. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

www.geeksforgeeks.org

Thank you! So I just want to be clear between the two methods, the geeksforgeeks one is more of a permanent fix and the tenforums is just temporary fix but more straightforward? Would the tenforums fix be applied to subfolders or would I have to do that for every folder I would want to go through?

 

[CountMike]

No there wasn't a virus. So if i am able to get this hard drive running again, I wouldn't get permission errors while running because I "unlocked it", so to speak?

I've heard about it, can Linux Live run the programs that were already on my system, because I have like Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint data I need to retrieve and it would be helpful if I could have a preview of at least the icons.

Live Linux can only run Linux programs, not windows, It doesn't "unlock" anything just doesn't care about windows restrictions except for Windows Bitlocker locked files/disks which is not your case. As for choosing which data you want to copy, just look and search for their file extensions. If those files are known format like for instance .jpg, . gif or .png or..... you should be able to open an view them before copying.