Hello all. Hope someone can help. My laptop died recently and I'm trying to retrieve the data from the hard drive. I bought a USB hard drive enclosure to connect the laptop hard drive to my desktop PC. Removed the laptop HD, put it in the enclosure, all works fine, and I see the laptop HD as a USB drive on my desktop PC. But...when I try to open the My Documents folder from the laptop HD it says access is not allowed becuse it's protected. On the laptop (running XP Home) we did have two password protected user accounts, so I'm assuming it's the user account password, but it doesn't help knowing that. Does anyone know whether it's possible to get in and get my old files..? I'm getting desperate! Many thanks.
You will have to create a temporary login on your new computer that is identical to the one stored on the old hard disk
