insecureabnorma
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Greetings.
Laptop became water damaged a few weeks back but i removed the hard drive before it was sent off to the insurance people. There's a desktop in the house so i got a housing for the HD which allows me to use it as a USB device.
Now, i can view the files on the hard drive, and the windows folder is definitely still on it, and for all intents and purposes everything seems intact, but I was unable to access the documents and settings folder of my username because of the password (I'm assuming. . .)
I tried booting from the USB on start up but i keep getting a message saying "Operating System Missing".
Could anyone advise what i'm doing wrong here? What's the easiest way of retrieving the data from the documents folder? And how can i get the drive to boot at all?
Totally technologically inept here sorry,
Cheers in advance
IA
Laptop became water damaged a few weeks back but i removed the hard drive before it was sent off to the insurance people. There's a desktop in the house so i got a housing for the HD which allows me to use it as a USB device.
Now, i can view the files on the hard drive, and the windows folder is definitely still on it, and for all intents and purposes everything seems intact, but I was unable to access the documents and settings folder of my username because of the password (I'm assuming. . .)
I tried booting from the USB on start up but i keep getting a message saying "Operating System Missing".
Could anyone advise what i'm doing wrong here? What's the easiest way of retrieving the data from the documents folder? And how can i get the drive to boot at all?
Totally technologically inept here sorry,
Cheers in advance
IA