TreeSize Free when run as administrator can see everything on a drive. Your best course of action is to try and copy what you need from it as soon as possible.īesides dalchina's suggestion to boot from another system on a usb, there is one other way I know of to bypass security permissions. Whatever has gone wrong with it could be made worse by any further writing to that drive. I would avoid trying to change permissions on the drive. When clicked, it appears to be loading only for it to do nothing Click continue to permanently get access to this folder'. when I try to access it via H:/Users/Owner I get the message 'you don't currently have permission to access this folder. Whatever went wrong with the drive I believe that everything is still in there and accessible I just lack the knowledge to do so. The data is all still there, I downloaded Disk Drill and it was able to find thousands of files. When clicked, it appears to be loading only for it to do nothingĪny attempt to go into security and set a new owner leads to the message 'the media is write protected'

However, when I try to access it via H:/Users/Owner I get the message 'you don't currently have permission to access this folder. The drive, as it happens, shows up on the computer as an H: drive. While many of the files are disposable, there's still come on my old drive I'd rather recover, namely vacation pictures, all of which were meticulously organized in name and date I'd been meaning to update to an SSD for a while anyway.

Happened to have a spare SSD and most of my files are stored on other drives so I went ahead and turned that into my new boot drive. Computer randomly restarted during a game then wouldn't boot up.

Extract software off old c drive