My old computer’s power supply recently failed. I have a Windows 10 laptop that’s still running. I took the hard drive out from the old PC and put it in a SATA-to-USB enclosure so I can access the files and back them up on the laptop. But when I try to open the user-specific folder on the mounted hard drive, it says I don’t have access. I think this is because the user I’m logged in as on the laptop isn’t the same as the user I had been using on the old PC.
I know the username and password for the old PC, but there’s no place to enter it here. Is there a way to access those old files directly? I don’t want to buy more parts for the old PC if there is a way to read the hard drive while it’s mounted on the laptop.
When I try to open the folder on the mounted hard drive, I get a message saying
“You don’t currently have permission to access this folder.
Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder.”
But clicking Continue never asks for a username and password, so it simply times out.
There is a similar thread elsewhere here (422237), but the advice isn’t working for me because I can’t run TAKEOWN on that drive without being an administrator, and I don’t see any place to enter a password to become the administrator.
