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pulling files off an old hard drive
Naebliss
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My mom's hp computer recently went into a permanent sleep (Mobo died I believe), so we went and got her a nice laptop. Problem is that she wants some files off the old pc's hdd. I bought her an external enclosure and installed the old hdd, but I cannot access any of the files. It doesn't show up under my computer. It does show up under disk management as a 465.75 GB Fat32 drive. At the top the volume is shown as being 14GB's big. If I right click then the only option I get is to delete partition. Is there something I'm missing? In a related question; is there usually a way to make it so that she can plug the laptop into her old monitor and close it but still use it like a desktop? Thanks all.
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2) Turn off the power saving settings on the laptop that are triggered by closing it, hook up a USB keyboard and mouse, and run a standard monitor cable from the laptop to the monitor, assuming the laptop has a VGA out.
1) both XP
2) Thanks I didn't know that you could change the close laptop settings.:P
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what kind of an enclosure did you get? USB? Perhaps there is some software that came with it you need to set up properly?
It's USB. It did come with software, but the manual says that it isn't needed for xp. I looked at the software and there are several different drivers (it does not autoplay). I installed one but it didn't make a difference.
It's a sata drive and doesn't have a jumper on it.
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XP has always recognized external drives without problem for me. Any way of trying the enclosure/drive on another computer. Or trying a known-to-be-working drive in the enclosure?
Regardless, you can also try a boot-able flavour of linux on the laptop. It's free and might let you access the drive and move the data off it. Worst case, you're down a burned CD/DVD and some time.
Saved many files from disks that refuse to boot. Enclosures go bad all the time. This typically (always for me) has been able to access the drive as a secondary storage device and allow me to recovery what I need.