I have a laptop that fried. I was able to take the hard drive out but the folder that I am trying to access is saying I dont have permission to VIEW the files. I have tried to change the permissions but the folder just shows empty. I know there is approz 15000 files in the folder.

How can i get access to the files?Easiest method is to use a Live Linux Distro which will ignore Windows NTFS security permissions such as Ubuntu or another distro of choice with a friendly GUI for anyone not very familiar with Linux and can NAVIGATE and figure it out quickly. Boot off that CD and copy the contents from this drive to your local drive. Then boot your system normal and where these files RESIDE you should now have access to them.

*Do not copy the folder and all contents as for I BELIEVE the NTFS File Permissions will be inherrited and move to your local system, I am pretty sure if you go in 1 more level past the initial folder that you cant get past under windows while in Linux and copy the files and folders 1 level in to your local hard drive at say C:\recovered_data\ that file permissions will not be inherrited in the copy to C:\recovered_data\

Other method that has worked for me if when copying protected data from NTFS to a FAT32 partition such as on a thumb drive via a Linux Distro to get past Windows NTFS File/Folder Permissions. FAT32 does not have these permissions and so permissions can not be inherrited in the move. So if you had say a 16GB thumb drive that is inserted into the computer booting Linux with this laptops hard drive as an external, and then use Linux to make a copy from the external HDD to this thumb drive formatted under FAT32, you can trim off the file/folder security as a fact.or u can just take ownership using the registry files that i found one on the internet and and the buddy that can help u DELETE the folder is unlocker software which is really good but slow i dont remember where do i download them so just google it first kill all processes from the folder using unlocker then take ownership lastly direct delete shift+DEL or use unlocker again to delete them and tell me if its work