may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)

[DuckRA2]

Ok so today i took the time and got my harddrive out of my broken laptop and hooked it up to my desktop directly through the power supply and to the motherboard. It could detect the harddrive and everything in my computer. It had a partition volume that i was able to open but I could not open the real drive, it just froze windows explorer. So next I went into Disk Management and found it there. When I right click on it and press open it says:


The disk in drive E is not formatted.
Do you want to format it now?
yes no

Am I wrong? formatting means erasing everything on the harddrive? Because i do NOT want to do that.
Any ideas how to access my files?




BTW: if this is helpful info,
-the harddrive is not one of those external harddrives
-the harddrive comes from Windows 7
-the computer i want the files on is Windows XP
-yes i have restarted my computer after attaching the harddrive after being prompted to




edit: i really could use the help ASAP

[Sage]

You should by a hard drive holder. go to best buy.

[DuckRA2]

didnt show up at all with those

[Sage]

hmmmm. sorry dude, just gonna have to risk it. maybe PM serge about it.

[Serge]

Your drive is partially fucked. Use PhotoRec (free and all), which recovers these file format. Afterwards you can reformat the disk and use it again, but I wouldn't do so - it will probably crash again soon.

[DuckRA2]

looked into those recovery type programs, is recuva reliable? It's free i found it between the time i was on the forum and you posted

[Serge]

Never used Recuva, so I can't tell, but I used PhotoRec a number of times already and it's excellent.

[DuckRA2]

yay quake and after effects are back! So far I have recovered program files folder

[Serge]

Good.

But please, please, please start doing backups now.

[DuckRA2]

sounds good to me