Re: connecting old hard drive to new computer
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:19:31 -0500
"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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