Can't access Laptop Hard Drive from Desktop

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My Laptop motherboard died and I want to copy some files over to my new
Desktop but when the Laptop Hard Drive is connected to my new Desktop, there
are some files that I can't access. Mainly in "\Documents and
Settings>'user'"

I guess they are the files that were not in the "Shared" folder. How can I
get to all of my information/programs/ etc. ?
Both are/were Win XP Home Edition.
Anyone know how to access these files?

Thanks.
Doug Freeze
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My Laptop motherboard died and I want to copy some files over to my new
Desktop but when the Laptop Hard Drive is connected to my new Desktop, there
are some files that I can't access. Mainly in "\Documents and
Settings>'user'"
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Max confusion here. Please explain. Did you install the drive into
your desktop or did you use your unusable laptop thru a LANs?

What is your Operating System on your laptop.

Then it's probably to get thru your share problem.
 
Thanks for helping.
I took the drive out of the broken Laptop and plugged it into an external
disk drive case thing that you can carry to a friends house and connect
through any USB port. Hmmm which makes me think, maybe I need to install it
IN my computer as a slave drive instead of going through the USB external
thing.
The Laptop was a win XP Home Edition as is the Desktop.

Doug Freeze
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Thanks for helping.
I took the drive out of the broken Laptop and plugged it into an external
disk drive case thing that you can carry to a friends house and connect
through any USB port.
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Oops, hadn't thought about that option.

I've never done that, but let's try something that applies to LANs and
sharing. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to your USB drive, then
right-click, select "Sharing and Security", then click "sharing", then
click "Share this folder on the network" checkbox. Have no idea if
this will work, but since a USB drive is kind of like a LANs drive it
might work. I'd like to hear if this allowed access to the drive or
folder(s) selected.
 
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