Connecting old HDD via Caddy

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I've just connected an old HDD to an XP PC via a caddy. It recognised it
straight away (whilst my newer Vista machine wouldn't).

It won't let me into my user fold though I can get into other user folders.
Presumably this is because it would have had a password when in it's
original machine? Is there a way to access my files?
 
Trevor said:
I've just connected an old HDD to an XP PC via a caddy. It
recognised it straight away (whilst my newer Vista machine
wouldn't).
It won't let me into my user fold though I can get into other user
folders. Presumably this is because it would have had a password
when in it's original machine? Is there a way to access my files?
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Please do not multi-post. If you feel it necessary to post in more than one
newsgroup - please cross-post. It saves you and those reading and
responding to it time, effort and annoyance. ;-)

Please see my answer to your identical post elsewhere.
 
Trevor said:
I've just connected an old HDD to an XP PC via a caddy. It recognised it
straight away (whilst my newer Vista machine wouldn't).

It won't let me into my user fold though I can get into other user
folders. Presumably this is because it would have had a password when in
it's original machine? Is there a way to access my files?
Click to expand...



If you hadn't encrypted the data files (which could not have been
done with WinXP Home), you may be facing nothing more than a simple
permissions issue. Have you tried taking ownership of the old folders?

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421


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