Trying to Extract old Hard drive onto new Computer help?
Bob asked:
My old desktop computer crashed and refused to turn on. So I went out and bought a HP Laptop. Also Bought one of those Hard Drive USB converters on Ebay for like $9. Hooked up the old Desktop Hard Drive to my Laptop’s USB port and it worked. Only when I opened the folder there were only like 19 files out of the 100s I had on my old computer. Is there any way I can buy a better converter that will extract all of my files i used to have. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S - The Hard drive was never damaged in any way
Tags: Desktop Computer, Hard Drive, New Computer, Usb Converters, Usb Port
July 13th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I would say if it works it works. I don’t think you need a better one. Are there more than one partition on the drive? click start run and type diskmgmt.msc at the bottom your drives will be listed. If that drive shows more than one partition but my computer only shows one Then more than likely the master boot record is trashed.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hi,
Are you loged on your pc as an administrator?
if not…do this, then right click on the drive and check you have the correct permissions if not just change them….you may not have acces to all the files?
should be under the security tab in properties.