HDD question

OllyBongo

OllyBongo

OllyBongo

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Hey OverClockers my mums laptop went a nacker ages ago and I need to get her documents off the laptop HDD, specifically a CV.
I have hooked it up to my desktop internally and can access the files.

It is a WDC WD250BVT-75ZCT2
It has windows 8 on it
When I go to E:\users I try and open the users folder where the documents are and it asks me for folder permission to access it, I click continue to take ownership and the green bar takes ages at the top and when it disappears I still cant get in it.

Does anyone know how I can access these files please
 
Right click on the folder
Properties
Then head to the security tab
Advanced Button
"Click the Change ownership"
type in the name of your user account.

You'll then have to go out of the properties and go back in;

Go back to the security tab and you should see a list of user accounts.
if "Users" isn't in the list then click add, and type users.
Click Ok and you should be able to read the files.
 
That's odd; I guess if you set the folder permissions on the whole drive it might take a while...

Although saturating a Sata-3 6GB link is a challenge for something like this.
 
just to let you know it said on the hdd sticker its a ws scorpion blue I think, I just shoved it in the case as I only need docs off it, it is not In a caddy.
also when I booted my pc it was a lot slower than usual, it cam up under the windows 10 boot logo (volume-something or other gibberish) then booted
Its now asking me to check the disk for errors so I'm gona do that now guys and I have access to the whole drive and even when no folder windows are open its still saying its 100%active. nothing looks weird in the performance monitor either dude
 
OllyBongo said:
just to let you know it said on the hdd sticker its a ws scorpion blue I think, I just shoved it in the case as I only need docs off it, it is not In a caddy.
also when I booted my pc it was a lot slower than usual, it cam up under the windows 10 boot logo (volume-something or other gibberish) then booted
Its now asking me to check the disk for errors so I'm gona do that now guys and I have access to the whole drive and even when no folder windows are open its still saying its 100%active. nothing looks weird in the performance monitor either dude
Click to expand...

In task manager can you see what's using the disk?

Just a thought; It could be your AV scanning the new volume.
 
I had this with my brothers win7 install that I was trying to gain access too a few weeks ago. I did all the steps Deathjester mentions and left it for about an hour to take ownership of the whole drive but it still hadn't done. I've done it in the past without any trouble at all.

I got access to the odd folder when I did it one folder at a time but transfering data from the drive was going around 300-600KB/s !!

It turns out, the SATA cable for the drive I was trying to recover data from wasn't 100% in the port properly, it had got snagged on the GPU. Might be worth checking all the data cables if you can, just in case.
 
It sid something about windows has detected drive errors but I'm running a chkdsk and it saying "error checking - about 5 days remaining"
I am using mcafee antivirus and I don't see anything at all using or accessing the drive
 
I had the same thing, each time I rebooted it would try to run a check disk. Once I swapped the sata cable for one with a clip on it so it couldn't come out of the socket, it worked a treat.
 
ok ill get one of those asap.
I am having an issue formatting the drive, have attached a screenshot...
I have deleted the recovery partition and the main partition that had the windows install on it, I can not delete the oem hidden partition though. when I right click it it says help and nothing els.
I would like to have the whole drive formatted as its from an old dell laptop, going to use it for some backup stuff
 
Heres the pic forgot to add it
1hZOAd1


http://1drv.ms/1hZOAd1
 
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