was recently given an old sony vaio with xp installed and was asked to remove photos of it
this laptop went into the usual endless safemode reboot
no problem I thought ill take drive out and attach to another pc etc
turns out the drive is knackered clicking and banging away whilst trying to read the contents
off the few times its listed the users it fails to read the whole folder with unable to read error messages
ive managed to get to the properties of the folder to change permissions but that fails aswell listing endless files that it cant locate.
I then used the security workaround in windows 10 test mode to bypass the permissions change but this fails aswell with random error messages.
so does anyone know of anyway to access the contents of this drive without professional removal?
this laptop went into the usual endless safemode reboot
no problem I thought ill take drive out and attach to another pc etc
turns out the drive is knackered clicking and banging away whilst trying to read the contents
off the few times its listed the users it fails to read the whole folder with unable to read error messages
ive managed to get to the properties of the folder to change permissions but that fails aswell listing endless files that it cant locate.
I then used the security workaround in windows 10 test mode to bypass the permissions change but this fails aswell with random error messages.
so does anyone know of anyway to access the contents of this drive without professional removal?