old internal hard drive need to access the download and documents sections. | Microsoft Community [Unofficial] | Page 1

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:28 PM

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i just bought a internal hard drive to usb c and i have the hard drive hooked up to my windows 11 laptop.
i need to access these file as there was important stuff on there before the laptop went kapoot and doesn't work any more

serene echo Jul 16, 2024, 7:29 PM

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it may not be possible to recover the files if you weren't making regular backups or using a tool that does it for you like OneDrive or Google Drive

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are you able to open the drive in your File Explorer to see the contents?

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:30 PM

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well i can't find those sections

serene echo Jul 16, 2024, 7:30 PM

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it'd be inside the \users folder of the old drive, but if you can't locate them the files will be lost forever

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Recovery of data from a drive without having backups ahead of time can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take many years by specialists, if ever possible at all

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:32 PM

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now it is spinning all i have to do is put them in one massive folder then look at it later

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now is say i need to be an admin to view it

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:35 PM

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serene echo Recovery of data from a drive without having backups ahead of time can cost tens...

do u know how to get around this

serene echo Jul 16, 2024, 7:36 PM

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usually just continuing would continue 🙂

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it even says "click continue to get access"

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:36 PM

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yes but never goes anywhere

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it just keeps spinning

serene echo Jul 16, 2024, 7:37 PM

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okay one sec

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try https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-take-ownership-to-context-menu-in-windows-11.1230/

Windows 11 Forum

Add Take Ownership to Context Menu in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to add Take Ownership to the context menu of all files, folders, and drives for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

This will allow you to be able to instantly take ownership of a file, folder (and all contents), or drive (and all contents) by changing the...

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it'll give you this option to 'take ownership' of that folder

cold mirage Jul 16, 2024, 7:41 PM

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okay

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will do that when i get home

serene echo Jul 16, 2024, 7:41 PM

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in theory it does the same thing but this really runs it through powershell and will probably work where explorer gets stuck

#old internal hard drive need to access the download and documents sections.