Ok, sofar I am seeing a lot of questions about recovering corrupted drives, etc. My laptop recently took a dive off of a table and lets just say the connection for the power supply is rolling around inside it someplace. Still booted fine with the battery however that is obviously dead and unable to be charged now. I had bought an external shell for the laptop hard-drive that connected via USB in the past (same laptop had lost one hard-drive over the years). My desktop sees the new device when it is plugged in, I hear the hard-drive making noise inside the external case, but cannot seem to access it or anything. Anyone have ideas/suggestions? I would really love to get my scuba diving photos off this little hard-drive without having to buy a whole new laptop, and from what I have been told nobody wants to even try repairing the current broken one.
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first check if it has drive letter or it has been detected so go to right click my computer and click manage then click disk management and see if you see it there. if it is the right click the hard drive and click explorer. you may need to add a drive letter first! or you use recovery tools such as r-studio / ontrack easy recovery !
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It is possible that your computer won’t let you access the hard disk because it has Windows system files installed on it. Do you get any “Permissions” errors pop up when you try to access it? Windows seems to do a good job of protecting user’s files on a hard disk. Say if someone nicked your laptop, and took out the hard disk, plugged it into their computer and wanted to get all of your bank details, or other important confidential documents that are stored on it. It is a security measure.
This has happened to me before, the way I solved it was to plug the hard disk into my computer and put a Linux Live CD (Knoppix – http://www.knoppix.org ) in the drive. This is a version of Linux that runs off the cd, that means there is no installation on to your drive. As soon as you take the cd out, it forgets everything about Linux and you’re back to Windows. If you download Knoppix (It’s totally free!) and put that in your drive, then it will ignore the Windows permissions, etc. and allow you to grab all of your files.
You may need to look into how you mount USB drives in Linux in order to use the external drive. Apart from that it’s a relatively simple process.
Hope that helps!
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