hard drive enclosure winXP problems?

Question

I have a hard drive that is fully functional from a friend whose laptop monitor died and cracked (he punched it). I am trying to recover all his data, music, pictures off of his hard drive. He was running Windows XP.

When I attached the HD to my PC via USB and HD enclosure, I see a bunch of windows files, but I can't access his documents, music, etc.

Is there any security problems I might have to deal with to get through?

Any other potential problems that I'm overlooking?

Usually when I hook this up, I can see all files, etc. Don't know what is going on with this one...

no, I do not see any error messages

Answer 1

I don't know how your friend set is system up. (installed windows)
you say that you can see the files? then you will need to find the folder for the user (his folder) in documents and setting, then open that.. there you should find a folder called my documents, open that, and you should see the folders for my video's. my music. my picture. open each folder and save what you can.to a cd if possible.. .not directly to your HDD.if you have all the windows updates, that will cause you problems. if the music on your friends hdd is pirated your media player will delete them off your hdd

if you put another windows hdd be it by usb your system your windows will delete some of the windows files on the other drive,, that's is were ppl make a mistake in thinking it's ok to do that, just to get files off, it dose cause problems.

Answer 2

in case you create a consumer on the computing device you're applying to get right of entry to "tension C", create a consumer with exactley the comparable call because of the fact the unique WINXP gadget, it is going to make it easier to get right of entry to the archives, as could an administrator account.

Answer 3

reinstall windows file

Answer 4

Do you receive any error messages?