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Help viewing laptop harddrive in laptop
I needeto backup my files to my 500 GB Hard drive which I have on my desktop.
My laptop hard drive is a Samsung HM040GI SATA Hard drive. The laptop hard drive is from a Dell Latitude D620.
I attached the laptop hard drive in the external enclosure using the SATA wires given. I connected the External drive to my desktop using a USB. The computer detected the hard drive, however, when I go to Control Panel, Desk Management, it's showing nothing in the File System. When I right click on the drive in My Computer, it's showing the File System as RAW.
It works in my laptop and the laptop drive is a NTFS formatted drive, however, I am unable to view it in my desktop.
I don't want to lose any data that is on this drive; just be able to back it up on my desktop. What can I do to backup the laptop data to my hard drive. By the way, the laptop has a corrupted network card, so there is no way that I can connect it to my network and transfer the data. I have ~2GB of data to backup. I need to have this data backed up by Friday so I can send the laptop's network card repaired over the weekend. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Junaid
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They are not disabled. They just don't work. Ii've tried enabling it from bios, unistalling it and re-installing it, and finally gave up.and the technical help folks told me to send the laptop in. I'd rather not even go into the USB ports at this time. I have a piece of hardware that is working and I just need to backup my data at this point in time.
It could be your usb enclosure problem. try to use this adapter:
http://insidecomputer.stor
Hook up directly to desktop system and move data from there.
An SATA drive will connect directly without adapters. A direct connection to motherboard is always preferable.
If you must use a USB enclosure, give GetDataBack a try. You can try before you buy.
http://www.runtime.org/dow
If you can boot the laptop with this HD, the drive is probably OK, even if it looks like "RAW" on another machine. As suggested, another enclosure may do the trick. Or you could boot the laptop with the HD in it, but boot with a Knoppix CD. That way you can try your USB and/or network connection to see if their problems are hardware or software and if either works, you can siphon off data from the HD to an external place.
/RID
Unfortuneately some manufacturers, and especially on Laptops, supply drives that are not totaly compatible with the Systems Bios. In order to get them to work there is usually a small Boot partition, that allows special driver to be installed at boot time from the hard-drive, this sometimes means that other information on the drive is displaced from standard, e.g. windows boot files, and partition information. Special driver understands where to find this information, and so causes no problems in original system, unfortuneately does mean that drive cannot usually be accessed by standard operating system, on another system, or even booted from same system (e.g. Knoppix). If this is case you will need to find some method of transferring data out of your laptop, if Network and USB are non functional, do you have working parrallel or serial port on laptop ?? could try LapLink software to transfer to Desktop system.
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by: simpswrPosted on 2007-10-30 at 18:49:00ID: 20182435
I'd try attaching a USB external drive to the notebook to salvage the files.