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Question

Recovering old photos from password protected acct on old HD

Sep 29, 2015 7:13PM PDT

I am pretty novice when it comes to computers, but I was able to remove my hard drive from my old nonworking computer and connect it to my new computer. I can open it, but my password protected user account is not visible. I tried the whole take ownership thing, but it didn't work. My old computer had windows vista installed and my new computer is running windows 7. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Trish

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Linux is next.
Sep 29, 2015 7:18PM PDT
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Sorry all!
Sep 29, 2015 7:21PM PDT

Got it working! Happy