Last night I got my son's old laptop out and got it going. Battery showed 1% so I hooked up the charger and was running off A/C for a while. Shut it down when I went to bed but left the charger on all night figuring it'd charge up while I slept. Get up this morning and the laptop won't even turn on now.
So, rather than fight a dead battery and/or charger I took out the hard drive and now have it hooked up to my desktop via the USB port.
My problem is most of the files are protected. I can see thumbnails of some of the pictures but other files I can't even access.
What do I have to change in order to gain access?
The laptop was running Win XP if I remember correctly.
The files I can access are in a folder I created called Data. The ones I can't access are found under the usual Win file explorer tree Documents or user data.
