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The problem i am having is that my desktop computer got broken and i was using it in my company, i have on it clients database and all sorts of legal documents. I was happy to learn that hard drive is alright when i connected it using external sata pocket.

Hard drive was divided on 2 partitions, system (C) and data (D), nothing special. I can freely access data from D:, but when i open C: i dont see anything. I remember having similiar problem in the past with previous versions of windows.

Does someone know if there is a way to unlock the data so i can copy it safely? I didnt have any password on my windows account and there was only 1 account on it (created while installing windows).

P.K.
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  • Possible duplicate of [Reset File and Folder Permission of External Hard Drive Data to default in windows 7](http://superuser.com/questions/659787/reset-file-and-folder-permission-of-external-hard-drive-data-to-default-in-windo) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Sep 12 '16 at 20:25

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For some reason all your documents got hidden and maybe even the permissions all changed.

Open Command Prompt as administrator and type the following :

cacls c: /t /e /c /g Everyone:f

If your drive is something other than C drive replace c: with your current drive.

After that, type this in :

attrib -s -h /s /d

You can open command Prompt by going to Start > Type cmd > Right click Run as Adminstrator

Don't Root here plz...
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  • i understand that i need to change "c:" with current partition letter ? when i conncted this hard drive externally to my notebook it doesnt have letter "C" anymore. – P.K. Sep 12 '16 at 13:54
  • @P.K. Correct. I assumed that C: would be the drive since you were mentioned C: and D: in your question. – Don't Root here plz... Sep 12 '16 at 16:38