Recovering data from another system

[iLEktron]

Here's the deal, my friends computer crashed. Win Xp is corrupted so he gave me the whole computer. Now I need to recover the data from the hard drive (It works fine, just won't boot because winxp is f*uped)

What should I do?

Plug the HD directly into another working system? Will that work and will I see all the files and folders? won't i be denied to these because its from another system, or am I mistaken?



Maybe get a live CD. Access the hard drive from there and copy over the files no another HD?
if so, what live cd provides this functionality?

I would rather go w/ the first option, whichever is better. Please help.

Thanks for everything in advance.

Mike

 

[n7]

Most likely issue i can foresee you potentially running into is permissions.

You might need to take ownership of the user folder to be able to access it.

But other than that, you should be fine hooking it up to a working computer.

I'd suggest doing it in safe mode in case of viruses on the HDD you are recovering from if you don't go the route of booting into a Linux CD/PE environment, etc.

 

[iLEktron]

Yea, I did run into permissions. I accepted it and it works. I can access the whole system.

I have one more question. I contacted the person who needs the files and he told me that all he needs is the pictures. Is there a way of scanning the HD for .jpeg picture files?
Some kind of program that will organize this.

BTW. im running win7.


Thanks

 

[n7]

Window's built in search can find files based on extensions.

But unless the user likes putting files in weird places, all their data will be under

drive letter > Documents and Settings > username

 

[AMDBOY]

May I ask how to access data from an old system that has two hard drives set up in raid 0?
I'm not clear on how to access the drives to a working system because of the raid array?
Tia.

 

[ElenaP]

Does that old system still start up?

If yes, just connect an USB hard drive to it and copy data over to that USB drive.

If no, is the RAID software (created in Windows Disk Management) or hardware?
If hardware, what is the model of the RAID controller?