USB HDD Empty?

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Hello everyone - I am in desperate need of assistance. I have recently lost an old laptop with windows 7 Pro installed on it due to a hardware failure and have recovered the HDD from it. I am trying to access the users folder in order to save the photos my wife had there.

I have connected the drive to my main PC using a USB adapter and the drive shows up in my computer but all of the folders appear empty. At first I thought it was an ownership problem but due to the lack of data showing in the folders, the ownership process cannot continue as windows cannot see the files in which to change the ownership. Does anyone have any ideas how I could possible resolve this?

OS- Windows 8.1
HDD - Samsung (Lenovo PN 45N7952)
OS on external HDD - Windows 7 Pro (former System drive)