Here is the deal. The Win7 laptop lost power and is not coming back from the dead. The sata drive however lives on since I mounted it on a desktop win7 machine. I can read some of the the data outside of the c:\users folder but I need to see all of it. Since I am booted into another instance of windows, the security won't let me gain access to it. How do either I boot into it or gain access to the data another way? Thanks.
Run Linux Mint 16 off a flash drive or cd to look at the drive.
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Yep, Linux may be the way to go.
Emergency Kit - save your files from a dead OS by whs - Mint Mate
Peppermint3 - Create Live CD/DVD/USB To Use For Emergency Backup by Golden - Peppermint
Lucid Puppy way to recover files from a non-bootable computer by one jumanji - Lucid Puppy
In all cases, you may create a bootable USB pendrive with Rufus Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way
good ideas but wasn't able to get my bios to boot from the usb. strange thing though, I could get it to boot from the sata port that I hooked the drive up to. When I did that, I logged in using the last known config and it worked even though the hardware was different. All in all, data was recovered. Thanks for the input!
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