Old Hard Disc data is not being recovered due to some problems. Help needed Please.?

Question

I had a pc with a lot of important data on c. that was actually on desktop. I sold that pc without Hard drive. Now I have installed that drive in another pc as a slave drive. now I am having trouble getting those desktop items/docs. because of different user names/owner names. What should I do to that data. I even cant access those documents. If Open those docs in desktop folder, data on primary Hard Drive is opening.

Answer 1

Good answers, but I'd go with the permissions fix. If you don't you will continue to have this problem until you reformat. (which will erase anything still on that drive) I didn't realize that Windows didn't have built in permissions correction abilities, as they usually have some way to emulate features found on a Mac. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about Windows than me knows how to do it?



You might try this and see if perhaps Windows built it in as well: On my Macs, I select the file then hit "command I" (get info) and at the bottom tell it who can have permissions with the file (or folder, with another button that allows giving the permissions to everything inside the folder.) If it is a locked file, there will be a lock that I can click to unlock it first. In a situation like yours I'd "get Info" on the entire hard drive and change permissions on everything with a click.

Answer 2

If that old hard drive you removed has a different Windows operating system than the computer you installed the hard drive as a slave, then that is why the hard drive is "confused" and doesn't want to boot up. You need to remove the files needed from the old hard drive via using it as an external hard drive rather than mounted as a slave drive. You may have introduced a different OS into the picture, but if not, you did bring a different motherboard into the picture with the old hard drive.

Answer 3

First of all, you can access the data only when the two HDDs have the same os. So, if you have a win 7 os on both drives, then only you can access the data from those two drives. BTW what os do you have?

Answer 4

If sounds like you are having a Permission problem. Your old files are protected against the new system trying to "steal" the data this way. Download "Take Ownership" ( for which ever OS you are running on the master). It will put the option on your right click drop down menu. Problem solved.



here is a web site about it.



http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Answer 5

I think you are opening that drive on windows xp. If you open this drive on windows 8 or windows 10, as soon as you double click on the folders, it will inherit all the read permission and will let you copy the data. You just have to wait for the permissions to setup automatically. Thanks for reading.

Answer 6

If possible, make your old HDD as master and then boot from it. If you don't know how, just unplug your current HDD and keep the old one connected and then boot from it.

Another option is, without changing anything, go to My computer and select the drive where your old OS was installed and then go like this path E:/Users/Username/Desktop/

Answer 7

What OS did the old computer have and which OS does the new one have.



Ron

Answer 8

take it to the hardware professional