Re: connecting old hard drive to new computer
- From: Jaymon <Jaymon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:35:00 -0800
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Use the Potorec app that is included with testdisk for Win-XP, can recover
your files in GUI, app opens a dos box.. It's GPL/free too, worked for me on
a reformatted & repartitioned HDD to find data..
Cheers
j;-j
"gwenbfine" wrote:
Anna,.
Yes, the data is very important to me. I had family tree information that
would be hard to duplicate. Plus I had over 700 music files. And a lot of
family photos.
Now to answer your questions if I can
1. Yes, it was a gateway pc w/only 1 hard drive installed. I never added
anything else (and to the post from bill, yes it had goback on it)
2. Yes, that's the hard drive I hooked up to my new laptop.
3. Yes, the actual size is 10.2 GB (I bought the computer in 99)
4. There were no partitions on that hard drive. I didn't even know what a
partition was until this problem. I was the only user except for
occasionally my daughter when she came home from college.
5. Yes, everything was working fine. Then one day I tried to turn the pc
on and got nothing, no power at all.
6. when I first installed it, disk management showed two partitions. One,
Your drive, showed a blue bar across the top. The "new volume" showed a
black bar across the top. And I've tried a number of things since then, so I
can't remember the exact sequence of events.
7. The partition that says your drive, I can't access it. the only action
it gives me the option of taking is "delete partition". How do I know if
there are any files??
I'd be willing to take it somewhere if it wouldn't cost an arm & a leg for
them to check it out. I do have an acquaintance at work that suggested the
external enclosure to begin with. But any advice that I could try first that
wouldn't hurt anything.. . . . .
Thanks for your time!
"Anna" wrote:
"gwenbfine" wrote:
9Hi
I am not very computer savvy so I need some direction. About 8 months
ago
my PC lost it's power supply. I recently bought a new laptop. I
removed the
hard drive from the PC and installed it in a USB 2.0 enclosure. I
hooked it
up to my lap top and the new computer is reading the old drive now.
BUT, I
don't know how to access my files. When I first installed it, it
renamed a
partition as Drive E. Drive E shows nothing in it. The purpose of
doing
this was to recover the files from my old PC. The old hard drive shows
up in
disk management as:
disk 1 your drive 9.54 GB FAT32 Healthy (active) and then another
partition
that says: new volume E 16 MB FAT (Healthy). I have been careful not
to
answer yes to any prompts that would erase any data. I would
appreciate any
instruction as to how to access my files from the old PC. Thanks
"gwenbfine" <gwenbfine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EEFE69AE-35AF-45DF-A435-53FE8EB3F3F7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you. Ok, I r clicked on it, selected make active. But the part
that
says New volume drive e is showing as active and the part that says your
drive says unknown partition. I'm beginning to think I might need to take
it
to someone else, lol. I like to think I'm an intelligent person,but I'm
not
feeling it right now :)
gwenbfine:
It's entirely possible that for one reason or another the data on that
problem HDD has been lost, so if that data is supremely important to you it
may be necessary to seek some professional recovery help or at least take it
to some knowledgeable acquaintance of yours.
But let's first try a few things and then go on from there, ok?
1. At the time your desktop PC (I'm assuming it was a desktop machine) lost
its power supply, there was only a single hard drive installed in that
machine, right? Was that desktop an OEM machine - from Dell, or HP/Compaq,
or Gateway, or some such?
2. And that hard drive is the one that you removed from that computer and
installed in your USB external enclosure, right?
3. You've mentioned that Disk Management in your new laptop reports the
total disk capacity of that (now) external HDD - the same one you removed
from your previous PC - as just under 10 GB. Was that *actually* the size of
that hard drive, or have you "lost" some disk space from that drive since
the transfer?
4. And when that hard drive was installed in your former PC, as far as you
knew it had only a single partition? Neither you nor anyone else to you
knowledge ever multi-partitioned it, right?
5. Was that hard drive functioning OK before the computer's power supply
became defective? It booted up just fine and functioned without any
problems? The only problem was that PC was a defective power supply right?
6. After you installed that hard drive in your USB external enclosure and
connected it to your new laptop and booted up, what exactly happened? You
say Disk Management immediately indicated there were two partitions on that
drive, one of 9.54 GB and a tiny one of 16 MB.
6. Can you account at all for those two partitions? They bear no resemblance
to what was in that hard drive when it was in your desktop PC? And again,
was the total disk capacity of that hard drive when it was installed in your
former PC about 10 GB?
7. And both partitions now show empty. No files or folders in either
partition?
As I say, we can go on from here if you want.
Anna
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