My PC power supply messed my motherboard so had to buy new PC. I have a new HDD, as my primary but as secondary, I have tried to connect the old HDD into my new PC, it detects it fine but i can't access any files from "my documents", when i go into windows explorer, every time i acess my documents, it keeps saying" files not accessible", . i did have windows password set up on that HDD, could this be reason why i can't acess any my documents files on this HDD? is there any way of accessing my documents on this hdd?
Any PC experts here?
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You may not be able to access it due to permission set whilst on other PC
unless you know your way around a permissions table i would leave it you could lock yourself out completely
Sometimes you can, most times you can't
Your either looking at a clean install on new drive and copy anything you want from your old drive to new one
or
but risky changing your old drive to primary and doing a repair installation using your original disk and hope it allows for such a massive hardware change during that repair.
You can also clone from your old drive to the new one but make sure you do it correctly because you may only end up with the size of your old drive total used space on the new one without and spare space
ie
old drive size 100gb
uncloned 80gb
space left 20gb
new drive size 160gb
cloned size 80gb
space left 0gb
it happens. it has to me because i never set it correctly
someone else may have an idea
unless you know your way around a permissions table i would leave it you could lock yourself out completely
Sometimes you can, most times you can't
Your either looking at a clean install on new drive and copy anything you want from your old drive to new one
or
but risky changing your old drive to primary and doing a repair installation using your original disk and hope it allows for such a massive hardware change during that repair.
You can also clone from your old drive to the new one but make sure you do it correctly because you may only end up with the size of your old drive total used space on the new one without and spare space
ie
old drive size 100gb
uncloned 80gb
space left 20gb
new drive size 160gb
cloned size 80gb
space left 0gb
it happens. it has to me because i never set it correctly
someone else may have an idea