mayorredbeard
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Lets say I have a computer with a Windows OS installed on it.
If I installed Linux or another OS on an external hdd, and booted up that OS on the computer, could I navigate through user files on the Windows hdd? The computer is so old I have forgotten all the usernames and passwords. So I figured this would let me bypass it. But I want to make sure before I go through all this trouble that I'm not going to get an 'Access Denied' error before doing this.
I would assume this would work since windows does not boot up its file permissions since i'm booting a different os; but I want to make sure.
If I installed Linux or another OS on an external hdd, and booted up that OS on the computer, could I navigate through user files on the Windows hdd? The computer is so old I have forgotten all the usernames and passwords. So I figured this would let me bypass it. But I want to make sure before I go through all this trouble that I'm not going to get an 'Access Denied' error before doing this.
I would assume this would work since windows does not boot up its file permissions since i'm booting a different os; but I want to make sure.