[Novalug] [OT -windoze question] hard drive access

[Bonnie Dalzell]

recently a friend brought a moribund computer over for me to look at. 
After the explosive sound that came from the mother board when it was 
plugged in and turned on and then the beep sounds  that the motherboard 
makes with the post codes that I do not know how to interpret we 
decided it was probably DOA. He had transported it along with a lot of 
other stuff in the back of an open pickup truck will moving.

Now he has a "new" refurbished $240 computer.

However I have the harddrive from the cadaver sitting on my desk. I got 
one of those nice jamau units that lets you plug a naked 
harddrive into your computer via a usb port. the drive spins up.

it has 3 partitions one is very large and is I assume the windoze 
system partition. two are fat partitions - one with boot info and the 
other with recovery info. under linux i cannot mount the system partition.

Here is my question

my friend had his computer with a log on lock needing a password. would 
that prevent me from mounting and viewing the system partition under 
linux?

my impression from the reading I have done is that the answer is no and 
that the system partition is probably bad.

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