Windows 7 & old vista HDD

[RussellA]

Hello,
I have a HDD mounted in a caddy that came out of my laptop that ran vista. My desktop runs on windows 7 and when I connect the external drive via USB the drive just beeps at me. If I plug it into a computer running Xp I can see the drive but cannot access them as I don't have admin rights. I need to get some files of it asap

 

[scout_03]

put yourself to be full admin on the files

 

[RussellA]

put yourself to be full admin on the files

I dought very much if I would be given admin rights on the XP computer, is there anything I can do to get it to run on the win 7 computer

 

[scout_03]

put files to you in win 7 as admin and if the win xp have the same user they should work

 

[RussellA]

Thanks for your help found another computer that I was able to use to set admin rights, have found the files I needed. Thanks again