Getting data transferred from dead laptop to new laptop - Access denied...

Password was on old laptop. Thats the problem I think and can't get to the data. HD from from old laptop is plugged into a emachines desktop and working fine except "access denied" keeps coming up. Ideas?

More background:
Old laptop password protected and some of the folders were hidden (paranoid) and I need those. Laptop will operate for a few minutes - maybe. Problem is power jack broken (and repaired several times) so what battery juice I do have cannot be re-charged. Old computer - Fujitsu C2210

New computer - N6420, which should be here tomorrow.

Currently have the C2210 HD plugged into an emachine desk top and everything is fine regarding shared/public folders, but not the "owners" data (my stuff)...

options:
1 - plug HD back into C2210 boot up and pray there is enough juice to change settings. If this is the best option I need detailed instructions because only one shot at doing that.

2 - rip apart the C2210 and re-solder some wires to the traces on the circuit board and pray (again) that it then charges/runs off AC.

3 - somehow mix/match the N6420 HW with either the C2210 HD or C2210 battery (to charge old battery) - least likely to work it seems, but we have many other computers if that is of any help.

What I need to get off is Quicken data (have semi recent back up of that though), Palm Desk top <<<<-----this is what I really need bad, and of course huge amounts of word docs, excel data, pictures, video, etc. and I am sure there is much more once I get going.

Yes I used the search function for about an hour, but I am new to this board.

Sorry this post is so long, hope someone can please please help as I am much more of a hardware guy.

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so heres roughly what you need to do. you need to disable simple filesharing. this will allow you to overtake the permissions of other folders. then you can copy whatever you want ou tof there. when you overtake the permissions, kae sure you check the subfolders/files option

 

WOW that was a fast reply - thanks!!!

I am all ears as to how to do that.
Laptop HD in "Windows XP personal" based desktop - working just fine except access denied.

Detailed instructions?

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something like this, might not be right because i remembered this from memory, but worth a try

with your desktop computer, right click on the folder/drive and go to properties, go to security tab, go to add, put in 'administrators', ok, ok

if it says can't change permissions, try go to advanced in the security tab and play with the owner tab to change the owner to administrators

 

Right click "owner", "sharing and security", share folder, no problem.
Trying to do that with anything under that is a problem.... "access denied"...

XP personal running on the desktop.

 

Make sure to check the box that says something like "apply all permissions of parent items to all subfolders and files".

Also, you should assign the owner as the exact user name that you're logged in under, not a blanket like "Administrators" or "Everyone". I have found these to not work as often as using the particular user name.

Basically, right click on the parent folder (the root drive). Click sharing and security. Find the your user name in the box listing users, or add it. Then click full control for the name, click apply to all sub folders...., click apply. Next go to the tab that features ownership. Add your user name and make it the primary owner. At this point you should see a dialog box that says "taking ownership of...." and animated files moving from one folder to another.

If you've done everything right, you should now have access. If you're using XP Pro you can do this all in Normal mode (I believe you said you are). However, using XP Home requires you to perform all of these steps in Safe mode.

I hope that helped. Sorry my directions weren't the most precise.

 

YES - this was the missing piece of info - I hope anyway.
Thank you and I will try this!

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Here is the relevant article from Microsoft's Knowledge Base: " How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP".