How to gain permission from administrator from old hard drive?

Question

So I got a new laptop, it's a Toshiba Satellite L505-ES5105 I think. And my old desktop computer, which has all of my information, songs, movies, etc. is in Indiana with my parents. I had my mom send me the hard drive out of it thinking I could easily buy an adapter for it to just take copy whatever I needed off of it. However every time I try to open a folder, I have to give myself permission through some security tab. So I did that for a bunch of folders and subfolders thinking it would give me access to the files with no problem. However, again, it makes me give myself permission. The problem with that, is that even if I give myself permission the same way I did with the folders, it would give me permission to copy the files onto my computer.

What I need is a way to take these security options off. I tried booting up the old hard drive to just take all of the security measures off but it won't boot up on my new laptop.

I need to know if there is a way to take the security crap off from my laptop or if I have to get into the old hard drive's boot and take the security measures off there, and if that's the case. How?

Answer 1

I assume that your old hard drive still have the OS installed? If it's true then that's why you were asked for permission. If that old hard drive have partitions and your files is in a different partition, try formatting the one where the OS installed. If that doesn't work, boot using that disk and remove all security measures or just allow everything.

Answer 2

I usually have the same issue when trying to open a previous installation of windows on an old harddrive on a new windows 7 install, what you do is rename of the folder your trying to access. Usually the files your looking for are in the C:/Users and than NAME folder. The name folder is whatever the user's name was. Change the name of it to something random and it should allow you access.

Answer 3

I couldn't find your model online, so I assume you're running Windows 7. That said, just change the ownership of the files. A quick Google search shows how to do this recursively. See the link below. And you'll probably need to right click cmd and run as Administrator.