WIN 7 HD in VISTA PC

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by mrpickem, May 5, 2014.

  1. mrpickem

    mrpickem Private E-2

    A friend has a Win 7 PC that has a bad motherboard. He also has an older Vista machine. He wants to capture his media off the HD in the WIN7 machine so I installed the WIN7 HD in the Vista machine(Both are SATA). The drive installed fine and I can see it and access some of the data but not the User data...docs, pics, etc...not authorized. I tried a couple methods to gain authorization with no luck. Maybe WIN7 has some security that can't be bypassed by older Vista.

    Any help???

    Thanks
     
    mrpickem, May 5, 2014
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  2. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    You have to take ownership of the Win 7 drive but I don't know if this can be done from within Vista.
     
    mdonah, May 5, 2014
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  3. mrpickem

    mrpickem Private E-2

    Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I will just hook it to my win7 machine and restructure folders.
     
    mrpickem, May 7, 2014
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  4. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    You may still need to take ownership of that user folder even on YOUR Win 7 machine. The underlined words in my previous post are a hyperlink to instructions on how to do that IF you need them.
     
    mdonah, May 7, 2014
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