Hi,

This seems like it should be easy, but I can't figure it out. My laptop is hosed up and I need to reinstall windows (I am getting a message that the installation is corrupt). Before I reformat the drive, I would like to extract some file from the drive before reformatting. I bought one of those kits that converts the 2.5" drive to an external drive and hooked it up to another machine. So far, so good. I can see the laptop's drive on the other machine.

Now here is the problem. Most of the files that I want are in the My Documents folder of the Admin user on the laptop drive. Since this drive is not the boot drive on this other machine, I can't navigate into the My Documents directory to copy the files.

Like I said, this seems like it should be easy to resolve, but I can't figure it out. Please help.

Thanks.

If you were able to 'see' the files from the other machine, how did you navigate to see them? It shouldn't matter if the drive is a 'boot' drive or not, you may need to set the laptop drive as a 'slave' drive to the other machine.

When the other machine loads the laptop drive, there should be a drive letter assigned (e: f: g:, or whatever) that you should be able to navigate and copy the file(s).

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You can boot the machine up using a CD-based Linux Distro and copy the files from there.... http://www.knoppix.com.

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Thanks for the replies. Just to close the loop on this, it was a file ownership issue (I don't think I described it properly above). I had to use properites-->security to take ownership of the files.

Thanks again.