Advice needed on the laptop hard drive data recovery.

Hello

I was wondering if someone could provide some advice on the recovery of data from an ACER laptop which was held in Microsoft Vista?

The laptop broke due to the 'PIN' inside the power supply's cable breaking. PC World said that it would cost hundreds of pounds to repair.

I have some important files saved on the drive hard (backup files conveniently failed too!) and I'd like back them.

What are my options? Should I seek professional IT useful to do? Or I can try to get files back myself? I currently have a Toshiba laptop that works under XP.

Hello Chris,

I by removing the hard drive and put it in a USB enclosure. There are 2 types of one HD is IDE the other is SATA. You can buy one from Newegg.com for less than $ 15. You may need to take possession of the disc and its files if you do this. Here are the steps: to take ownership of a file or a folder how to appropriate a file you must have owner of a protected file to access. If another user has restricted access and you are the computer administrator, you can access the file to appropriate.

To take ownership of a file, follow these steps:

  1. Right click on the file that you want to take control and then click Properties.
  2. Click on the Security tab, and then click OK in the security message (if one appears).
  3. Click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.
  4. In the name list, click administrator, or click the Administrators group, and then click OK.
    The administrator or the Administrators group now owns the file.

To change the permissions on the file that you now own, follow these steps:

  1. Click on Add.
  2. In the list enter the object names to select (examples) , type the user or group account that you want to have access to the file. For example, type administrator.
  3. Click OK.
  4. In the group or user names list, click the account you want, and then select the check boxes of the permissions you want to assign to this user.
  5. When you're done to assign permissions, click OK.
  6. You can now access the file.

How to capture a record you must have ownership of a protected folder to access. If another user has restricted access and you are the computer administrator, you can access the folder by taking possession.

To take ownership of a folder, follow these steps:

  1. Right click on the folder that you want to take control and then click Properties.
  2. Click on the Security tab, and then click OK in the security message (if one appears).
  3. Click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.
  4. In the name list, click your user name, click administrator if you are logged in as administrator, or click the Administrators group. If you want to take ownership of the contents of the folder, select the check box Replace owner of subcontainers and objects .
  5. Click OKand then click Yes when you receive the following message is displayed:
    You are not allowed to read the contents of directory folder name. Do you want to replace the the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control?

    All permissions will be replaced if you click Yes. Note folder_name is the name of the folder you want to take charge.

  6. Click OK, and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the folder and its contents.

Let us know whether, if that helps you. Make it a great day!

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