Recovering personal data off an old windows7 HDD

So my laptop's motherboard fried, and so I ended up creating a new desktop. I also got a usb enclosure for the old HDD, and managed to get most of the data off- with the exception of anything in my personal user folder- which includes documents, desktop files, and the download folder. Unfortunately, that is pretty much most of what I need/want. I have the old Username/password for my old windows account but I have no idea how to retrieve it, as it keeps denying me access. Any advice on how I should proceed?

Hi

You need to right click on the User/[user name] folder and select 'take ownership'. This should allow you access if you are logged on as an administrator.

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UKMedia

UKMedia said:

You need to right click on the User/[user name] folder and select 'take ownership'. This should allow you access if you are logged on as an administrator.

I don't think "take ownership" from the right-click context menu is standard Win7.

However it IS a neat thing, it works, but it must be installed first. A tutorial exists on how to create it.

By taking ownership of the \Users folder on the old drive you will then have full read/write access to it as just like any other folder. Also works to "take ownership" of a complete drive, not just a folder.

See this tutorial, on how to add "take ownership" to the right-click menu.