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Discus and support Installed my old hard drive; it's read-only and locked. I have the password but I can't... in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Hi! I'm in a bit of a pickle. So, a weird glitch happened to my laptop which basically erased the maximum gigabytes by about 50--it's a long story and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Kitten-versus-world, Apr 4, 2020.

  1. Installed my old hard drive; it's read-only and locked. I have the password but I can't...


    Hi! I'm in a bit of a pickle. So, a weird glitch happened to my laptop which basically erased the maximum gigabytes by about 50--it's a long story and cut short, I ended up just putting in my old SSHD drive to compensate for the lost memory. At first it boot up to that drive and it worked wonderfully as it's from my old laptop and has the file system on it. I edited the BIOS to boot up to my original SSD. Now the SSHD is my drive D.

    And...yeah. That's where I ran into a problem. While I can see some of what's on D it's read-only, and appears to be locked. I figure this is because I put a lock on the laptop where the SSHD came from, but...seeing as though I know the password, shouldn't I be unable to unlock drive D?

    If worse comes to worst I guess I could brute force the hard drive by formatting it after uploading some of the rest of the files to the cloud. But, is there any way to fix this?

    PS: Yeah I did search for a solution to this and just went down a long labyrinth. There's actually not one clear answer involving a person who installs their old laptop's hard-drive as the back-up drive on their new laptop...and who has the password.

    :)
     
    Kitten-versus-world, Apr 4, 2020
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  3. dhdude Win User
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    Hey Guys,
    What would be the best way of copying/imaging the entire contents of an old system drive over to a replacement hard disk for the same machine? I need to copy the Windows installations and all other data to the new drive, and then format the old drive to use as a backup.

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