access files on a Windows 8 hard drive within Windows 10

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Liz N.

Hello,My Windows 8 laptop wouldn't boot and I stupidly hadn't backed up all the files. The hard drive's fine and a friend has been able to access the files on a laptop running Ubuntu.I've put the hard drive in an external caddy and plugged into a Windows 10 laptop but can only see an efi folder.I've gone into properties for the disk and given full permissions to system, administrators, and everyone and within File Explorer, made sure the hidden items checkbox is ticked.Any help on how to access the files would be gratefully appreciated. Files are now being backed up regularly!

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