transfer files from the old drive hard windows 7 to new computer windows 8

My old laptop windows 7 crashed for an unknown reason, so I bought a new laptop with windows 8. I removed the hard drive from the windows 7 machine and using an external enclosure card connected to the new laptop.

I can see and open any public folders in the folder of the user data, but can not access a user folder. Also when I right click on the folder of the user, it seems that they are empty.

I have tried making the appropriation and unchecking hidden files but still no luck.

Pretty frustrated right now.

I think I solved the problem.

I had to do a right-click on the folder user and copy and paste in a new folder. While he was doing that he clean up some data. Don't know exactly what was going since I wasn't there when it happened.

Once he went through this process, I could see my user files to the new folder and the old hard drive.

Sorry I can't explain it better.

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