Laptop Hardrive

andy69_2

Hi I hope someone can help me. I posted on here a while back about my laptop being broken and i wanted to transfer many important pics and videos off it onto my new laptop. SO i bought this thing that i was told on here where i put the hard drive in and plug it into my new laptop like a big usb stick. I did it today and i can see all the files/videos etc but when i click on them it keeps asking for 'security' things, I cant remember exactly now. Then when i give permission to the laptop user to look at them it lets me into the folder. But then when i click on a photo it just says 'no image' Even though i KNOW they havent been deleted and it says it for all of them, also the videos won't load up, its about 1.5gb worth of stuff. Sorry for the long post but the photos etc are really important to me. Thanks!:)

dispossessed

The easy way to recover your files would be (having first plugged in the old laptop drive) to use one of the utilities on a "bootable" CD-ROM such as The Ultimate Boot CD This has the effect of by-passing any security or file permissions.

If you decide to download it and copy it to CD you will need to burn it as an ISO image. If you need a suitable tool the Burn CDCC is good.

Both are free (but do consider a donation).

Hope this helps,

Trevor

Mista_C

You will need to 'Take Ownership' of the folders on the drive. I'm assuming your current OS is Vista or W7 although the XP method is almost identical.

• CTRL or SHIFT select the folders containing the files you want to access
• Right-click said folders and left click Properties
• Click on the Security tab and then click Advanced
• Click on the Owner tab
• (For Vista/W7 click on the Edit button) highlight your username in the "Change owner to" panel
• Tick the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
• Click Apply
• Click back on the Permissions tab and remove the tick from "Include inheritable permissions from this objects parent"
• If your user account isn't listed (For Vista/W7 click Change Permissions) Add your user account and tick the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
• Click OK twice to get back to the first dialog.
• Click Edit, highlight your user account and tick the box "Full Control"
• Click Apply and then OK.

You will see it speeding through a list of files while it changes on owner on each one. Once it's complete you should be able to access all of the files and folders on there from your user account.

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burn them to a dvd when you get hold of them

andy69_2

Mista_C wrote: »

You will need to 'Take Ownership' of the folders on the drive. I'm assuming your current OS is Vista or W7 although the XP method is almost identical.

• CTRL or SHIFT select the folders containing the files you want to access
• Right-click said folders and left click Properties
• Click on the Security tab and then click Advanced
• Click on the Owner tab
• (For Vista/W7 click on the Edit button) highlight your username in the "Change owner to" panel
• Tick the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
• Click Apply
• Click back on the Permissions tab and remove the tick from "Include inheritable permissions from this objects parent"
• If your user account isn't listed (For Vista/W7 click Change Permissions) Add your user account and tick the box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
• Click OK twice to get back to the first dialog.
• Click Edit, highlight your user account and tick the box "Full Control"
• Click Apply and then OK.

You will see it speeding through a list of files while it changes on owner on each one. Once it's complete you should be able to access all of the files and folders on there from your user account.

THATS GREAT thanks alot, i will try this tomorrow when i get home! I hope it works, thats the thing that was happening so thansk alot!

Mista_C

andy69 wrote: »

THATS GREAT thanks alot, i will try this tomorrow when i get home! I hope it works, thats the thing that was happening so thansk alot!

No probs. You might get a message requesting to reset permissions, just OK and if prompted select choose copy from the next dialog.

Let me know how you get on.

andy69_2

Mista_C wrote: »

No probs. You might get a message requesting to reset permissions, just OK and if prompted select choose copy from the next dialog.

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks ALOT! It worked, perfect instructions!! I have my photos and MOST of my videos. SOme of them dont have a picture as the icon, just a white square. DO you think this is because the windows media player needs updating or something? Some of the videos work though. Thanks again!!!!!:):T

Mista_C

andy69 wrote: »

Thanks ALOT! It worked, perfect instructions!! I have my photos and MOST of my videos. SOme of them dont have a picture as the icon, just a white square. DO you think this is because the windows media player needs updating or something? Some of the videos work though. Thanks again!!!!!:):T

Great and you're welcome. I have to admit I've not seen the white square you describe so I wouldn't like to advise on it. I suppose it's possible to do with the thumbs.db files which are hidden away in the directory structure or even an icon cache issue. Personally the first thing I'd do is delete the thumbs.db files and let them rebuild themselves.

andy69_2

Mista_C wrote: »

Great and you're welcome. I have to admit I've not seen the white square you describe so I wouldn't like to advise on it. I suppose it's possible to do with the thumbs.db files which are hidden away in the directory structure or even an icon cache issue. Personally the first thing I'd do is delete the thumbs.db files and let them rebuild themselves.

Can you explain more please? Thanks mate

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windows creates a mini cache of jpg's in each directory it finds them in a file called thumbs.db, if it gets corrupted the preview might not work, simply delete the thumbs.db file to find out, it will get recreated automatically

esuhl

^^ It could well be that, or maybe you don't have the required codec if you're unable to watch the video as well...? Downloading VLC might help if this is the case.