Trying to copy files from another computer's OS drive

[TechBoyJK]

My brothers 'All in One' Dell pc had a hard drive that was giving him problems, so he wanted to just upgrade to an SSD. It had Windows 8. He's paying me to install the SSD he bought and get Windows 10 up and running.

I installed the SSD and Windows 10. Everything's running fine. But...

I have his old hdd (WD 500GB Blue sata) hooked up to a SATA>USB adapter. I can see the drive and access the files, but pretty much any of the user data and os files are all locked, and no matter what I can't get permission to access them. With Windows 7, I would just change ownership of the files.

I've tried everything, but I can't get access to the files. Anybody know how to change ownership of Windows 8 files when you have the drive hooked up to another computer with Windows 10?

 

[vailr]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

 

[Mushkins]

Was he running Windows 8 Pro?

If so, his files might be Bitlocker encrypted, which means what you want to do is not going to work. You'd need to replace the HDD back in the PC, boot into the OS, and then move the files you want off of the PC. You could slave the SSD using the same adapter to achieve this, then swap back to the SSD as the boot drive.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...if-bitlocker-drive-encryption-is-enabled.aspx