I have a laptop which has bitten the dust. I got a hard drive enclosure to recover the pictures I have stored on it. Only problem is - The Windows XP account which they were stored in was protected with a password and the hard drive will not let me access it. Is there anywhere I can put in the password or any way around this security feature? Reinstalling the hard drive in the machine isn’t an option (its completely dead) Thanks!

Ok so I've taken the hard drive out of my old (broken) laptop and put it into a Hard Drive Enclosure I just brought so I can access my old data (Music, Pictures etc.) But whenever I try to access files in the "My Documents" section, I get messages telling me I don't have permission to access the folders. I've already read up a bit on the problem and have tried going into the "Properties" of the folder and changing the owner of the folder, but that only lets me look at the files in that folder. I cant play any music files, look at any pictures or copy them over to my new laptops hard drive.

Is there a way I can bypass these security measures altogether? Or am I just going about trying to give myself access the wrong way?

Thanks in advance.