How to do a data transfer with an external SSD

Question

I recently had a laptop (MSI Gf65 Thin, Windows 10) that completely bricked out of the blue. I was unable to retrieve any backups. The SSD is fully functional. I have it in an external hard drive connected to my new laptop (MSI GE78 HX, Windows 11). I have been unable to access my downloads on the external SSD as it is walled by Drop box, When I log in to my drop box there are only files from 2021.

I tried to change the permissions but I found no luck.

Please help me. My artworks have been lost and I desperately want them back.

Answer 1

I was able to access the drop box folder and see my files! Unfortunately I cannot seem to take ownership of them and copy them to my computer. I have tried to change the permissions with no luck.

Answer 2

Hello

It seems there is permission issue.

Try to open administrator command line then run the following command line to assign permission to the folder then try to access the folder again.

takeown /R /A /F foldername

icacls foldername /grant domain\Administrators:F /T