Question about an old hard drive on a new computer

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

I pulled the hard drive from my laptop in order to transfer files to my desktop since my laptop died. I have a 2.5" enclosure for the laptop hard drive, and the hard drive is a Samsung SP1614C. I installed the hard drive and the enclosure.

The laptop drive still has XP on it, as it was the boot drive for my laptop. I now have it in an external drive installed on my desktop. It shows up in device manager on my desktop, but not under disk management in administrative tools. I believe all the drivers are up to date.

Any suggestions on what to do to be able to access the hard drive? Any 3rd party program suggestions?

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[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

It's USB external now I take it?

nG

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

Yes.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Might have to do with an OS being on it...

nG

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

Any suggestions? Jmac? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

is it set as a slave?

 

[Ku-sama]

maybe the MBR is corrupt and it wont read the secotrs... if I were you I'd just format it with a windows disk and then use GDBNT to get your files back...

OR use partition magic to just bring the partition back.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

is it set as a slave?

I tried it as master and slave. Neither show up.

maybe the MBR is corrupt and it wont read the secotrs... if I were you I'd just format it with a windows disk and then use GDBNT to get your files back...

OR use partition magic to just bring the partition back.

The problem is Windows won't detect it at all, so I can't do anything at this point.
It should just be plug and play, right?

 

[Ku-sama]

no. not if the partition is corrupt.... download Partition magic 8.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

no. not if the partition is corrupt.... download Partition magic 8.

I don't know why the partition would be corrupt as it worked 100% fine before I took it out of the laptop.
Anyhow, I'm snatching PM8 and I'll give it a try.

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

what's the current setting on your destop hard drive. you might need to change that but iono about usb

 

[Ku-sama]

since it's connecting via USB, the standard HDD would not have to be adjusted. does the drive still boot in the laptop?

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

So Partition Magic 8 does not detect the hard drive as I suspected. Upon further review, it doesn't show up in disk management in windows, nor in USBview as a connected device.

since it's connecting via USB, the standard HDD would not have to be adjusted. does the drive still boot in the laptop?

My laptop won't turn on due to a battery/power issue, so I have no way of checking. That's the reason I'm trying to get the laptop HDD up and running on my desktop.

 

[Mugen 10+ year member]

Why not just connect it via IDE? Sure, it won't fit in your case, but it should be fine if you just temporarily hook it up and set it on the ground or something til you transfer everything. I've never had this problem though =/

 

[StealthKill 10+ year member]

Start >> Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Storage >> Disk Management

Go there and see if windows even see's the hard drive. Can troubleshoot more from there.