External Hard drive w/ laptop...My Docs Problem

fortunado1fortunado1
edited March 2005 in Hardware
I hope this isn't a stupid question, but my old computer crashed and I saved the hard drive from it. I bought an external case to connect it via USB. I have access to the hard drive now, but I can't find the My Documents folder anywhere. The hard drive still shows that the space taken up by pictures and songs in My Documents is still used, but I can't find the folder. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. Thanks guys and gals.

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  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    try X:\documents and settings\{your username}\my documents
  • fortunado1fortunado1
    edited March 2005
    It doesn't even show the folder of the username I used, and when I try to go to the 'user' folder in docs and settings, it says my access is denied.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Sounds like you had some kind of BIOS-to-hard drive security feature on the laptop. Did you have to log in with the laptop before it booted into Windows?
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited March 2005
    Go find a computer that's running Linux or a bootable "Live" Linux CD and see if you can get to it that way. If the drive is partitioned using FAT32, (not likely considering the security measures present...) you could even try an older, non-NT version of windows to access the disk.

    What's happening now is that Windows thinks you're trying to access another person's account and folder and is stopping you from doing so.

    Linux won't (if I remember correctly) care about that and will allow you *read-only* access to NTFS partitions, so you may be able to find a bootable CD-ROM "Live" version of Linux and use that to copy your data to another location.

    Another thing I've noticed is that "My" is a magical term to windows... I can name a folder "My Music" on an external volume with one machine, and plug the drive into another machine where the same directory then reads "(username)'s Music".
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited March 2005
    Knoppix STD should do it.


    Burn it to cd, and boot your machine with it. That should allow you to copy stuff off the usb drive just fine.
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