Recover files from a hard drive NT
A friend has a hard drive from his old NT machine, and there are a lot of files that he needs to get out of it. We have tried to put the NT HD into a USB enclosure (to use as an external hard drive), and copy the files to his new laptop XP, but the former Office hard drive says 'Access denied', and it seems not possible to change the permissions on it of the new XP machine. Is it possible to enter the login and the password for this external hard drive from NT? The only option we have otherwise is emailing files, and there are hundreds.
Thanks in advance, any ideas are appreciated.
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