Major problem please help

Regy53 · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:36

Hey Gents,

Built a new pc over the holidays. Stupidly I thought I could just move my old SSD (with windows on) over to my new pc with a new ssd and fresh windows installed.

In principle I can however both the sata and power connectors snapped and I cannot boot of the drive for some reason. I have just copied the drive onto a bland hard drive but I cannot access my own files if that makes sense.

Basically my whole business is on that hard drive. ~Every email i have ever sent and received for two years etc.

How do i get into these files? and my old documents etc, i think there hidden as im not logged into it as an admin?

Thanks
Ross

GefGz · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:42

you'll need to set the new hard drive as your boot drive in an attempt to get into windows which will make it easier to recover the files, they aren't lost it's just as you're using a different Windows installation they're seen just as random files rather than all your documents,etc,etc.

Regy53 · 1 Jan 2015 at 14:49

hi, i have the new hard drive as a boot drive

the old ssd is full up 121 gb out of 122gb used. However when i copied it to another hard drive only 30gb went. I need to get into my old user folder.

thanks for your reply btw

GefGz · 1 Jan 2015 at 15:00

Did you mirror/clone the drive or just try and copy some of the files?

If you have access to the SSD but just cannot boot from it you'll need to take ownership of the files on your new installation,

It's under rightclick/properties/security/advanced/owner/edit button and you'll need to apply ownership to your current login and use the tickbox for subcontainers and folders too.