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Windows 7 - ignore security when reading external drive
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Mar 15, 20267714 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My system hard drive on an XP computer kind of failed (random corrupt sectors). So i got a new harddrive and am trying to recover the files. The filesystem is NTFS. The system i'm trying to use when recovering the files is Windows 7. I'm obviously an admin on this box. The last data i'm trying to r…
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Fix for: Windows 7 - ignore security when reading external drive
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Other answers are incorrect. You do need administrative access on the machine you're using, but not the disk from which you want to recover data. I have successfully used this method twice to recover the data from dying disks where writing anything …
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