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Off-Topic => Off-Topic Discussion => Topic started by: DuckRA2 on February 26, 2011, 10:25:33 PM

Title: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: DuckRA2 on February 26, 2011, 10:25:33 PM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: Sage on February 26, 2011, 11:54:57 PM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: DuckRA2 on February 27, 2011, 12:02:46 AM

didnt show up at all with those

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: Sage on February 27, 2011, 12:04:40 AM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: Serge on February 27, 2011, 06:33:37 AM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: DuckRA2 on February 27, 2011, 09:08:28 PM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: Serge on February 28, 2011, 12:30:50 AM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: DuckRA2 on February 28, 2011, 05:28:42 PM

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

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: Serge on February 28, 2011, 06:50:29 PM

Good.

But please, please, please start doing backups now.

Title: Re: may be able to get laptop files back (with RA2 and goood stuff)
Post by: DuckRA2 on February 28, 2011, 08:56:45 PM

sounds good to me

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