Computer Nerds, OneDrive Recovery?

[Lee]

Trying to help some friends after lightning fried a computer.

All I've got is the M.2 SSD, stuck it in a USB-C enclosure, I've got full access to their Windows user accounts. Issue is, I can see all of icons and file names but all of the Pictures, Documents, Desktop, etc. are in a OneDrive folder, and 90% of those I can't actually open, they have a little gray X on the icon. What I assume is I'm only seeing the metadata of the file that was on their computer and the actual file is hopefully still on OneDrive?

 

[92 s dime]

Log into onedrive from another pc or try and boot from the external enclosure if it will let you or put the m.2 drive into a good pc and boot into windows

 

[Lee]

I don't have their credentials, I've asked them to log in on another PC and check. I logged into my OneDrive on the off chance that having the metadata would give me access, but of course it didn't.

I haven't tried booting from their M.2, but without their credentials and being at new hardware ID and IP, I doubt it'll default give me access. If they can't get anything from just logging in to OneDrive on a new device, I'll ask them to share their credentials and try booting from their M.2.