Copying from Foreign Disk

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I have a friend's laptop that will not boot. Appears to be hardware related

In any case, I want to make a copy of as much of his disk as possible (all of it would be nice)

Loaded friend's disk into a Modular Bay on my laptop. Performed a chkdsk on the drive and it appears to be OK, no problems reported

BUT, I cannot see many of his files, particularly "Documents and Settings" due to my not "...having permission to access this directory"

I'm not sure what to do here. I am logged in as Administrator on my machine, but I cannot seem to affect the permissions on the files on my friend's. At at certain level this seems to make sense to me, keeping just any schmoe from accessing "my" files by simply inserting "my" drive into another machine

Now, that said, I need to get around this. How can I do this? Is it possible

Thanks in advance
Brian
 
You need to take ownership of the files. Do a search for that in the Windows
Help and you'll get some pretty good instructions.

BrianPlummer said:
I have a friend's laptop that will not boot. Appears to be hardware related.

In any case, I want to make a copy of as much of his disk as possible (all of it would be nice).

Loaded friend's disk into a Modular Bay on my laptop. Performed a chkdsk
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on the drive and it appears to be OK, no problems reported.
BUT, I cannot see many of his files, particularly "Documents and Settings"
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due to my not "...having permission to access this directory".
I'm not sure what to do here. I am logged in as Administrator on my
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machine, but I cannot seem to affect the permissions on the files on my
friend's. At at certain level this seems to make sense to me, keeping just
any schmoe from accessing "my" files by simply inserting "my" drive into
another machine.
 
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