Looking at content of an old harddrive

[Seba]

Hello,

I have a hard drive that I pull from one of my old laptops. I want to look at some of my content in the user folder or the document setting content; however, It is giving me an access deny option. I tried change this, but it does not let me. What is the best way to see what is there?

[Just Plain Fred]

Hello,

I have a hard drive that I pull from one of my old laptops. I want to look at some of my content in the user folder or the document setting content; however, It is giving me an access deny option. I tried change this, but it does not let me. What is the best way to see what is there?

Seba,
Hello... The easiest way is to download a free program called "Winbubbles" for Vista or "7" ( i use 1.76 on both ) Winbubbles check off to add "take ownership " to your Right click context Menu....Has lots of other great tweaks that you might find useful... Works for me... Regards Fred

[CLiNT]

Another way to remove the restriction:
Right click on the folder and go to properties, hit the security tab. Select edit and remove "everyone" from the list.
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[Seba]

Thanks Clint and Fred. Clint's approach worked the best with the exception that I delete "authenic Users" instead of everyone.