Re: Hard drive restore

What size is shown in My Computor for this drive?
And what details are shown in Disk Management?
If its showing a Compaq Restore Icon it might suggest that this is the
hidden restore partition.
The recovery cd will not - I'm allmost certain - run/work from another PC

"billy bob" <billybob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The hard drive in my laptop had an "unmountable boot volume" error. It
was
caused by over heating to the mobo. I have removed the hard drive and put
it
in an external enclosure.
When I connect it via USB to another computer and click on My Computer, it
shows up as a drive. When i click on this drive, it shows an icon of a
padlock and says Compaq Restore.
I have the recovery console cd. What I am afraid of, is this: If I put
the recovery cd into my working computer, is it defaulted to the C drive?
That is not the drive I want to fix. Does the recovery cd give me the
option to to select another drive?
Also, is there a way to "unlock" the drive without running the restore
disk?
I would like to copy files from the HD before it is formatted?
Robin



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