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How to open files that are access denied on an external harddrive

Forum General UK & Ireland Discussions : How to open files that are access denied on an external harddrive

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Hello,
My laptop brike. So I bought an external hard drive enclosure to get the files off my hard drive. When I try to open my user file I getting 'Access Denied'. Im guessing this is because I had a sign in password?? please can someone help as I have many pictures that i want to save :-)

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use this it should do the job

you can select multiple files at the same time--it may take quite a while to take ownership of them all if you have a large amount of data

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/win [...] -in-vista/

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Or you can just select the directory they are in and when prompted chose the option to apply these settings to all files and sub folders.

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