hard drive ????

[niloc]

Up date  on   this issue,  I  purchased   an   external   hard drive  caddy   but  when I plug it into my   working      HP pavilion  DV6  it  can not  install   the drver  for it   Any Ideas   please ????

[niloc]

It would appear  that it was faulty    so I got a full refund,   purchased  another  one  froma different surplier  which   loaded  the    driver correctly  and appears  on my  Devises and printers,   put  the rogue  hard drive  in,   now  where do i veiw  the contents  ( if any )    I have    tried  c:\ drive >  windows   but  cannot  fathom out  what to do  next   

[Dudefoxlive]

put in an sd card into the card reader.  if it can read it then you are good.

[niloc]

sorry  am I missing something here,  what has  the SD  card   got to do with  the rogue  hard drive   from another machine     that  I have put  into a caddy   on my working   laptop ?,   everything on this  laptop  is fine  its  the  other laptops  drive I am trying  to   read !

[Dudefoxlive]

Sorry about that.  I guess chrome glitched and i was replying to another form and it changed to this one.  

If you can boot to Windows from a different drive try and open the hard drive like normal by going to file explorer and looking for the one with your files.  If you hear any kind of click coming from the drive it is dead and can't be saved at this point. 

[niloc]

ahhhhh    when i first     tried it  in the original   notebook     it was clicking     when  i was  trying  it 

[Dudefoxlive · Accepted solution]

I'm sorry about the loss of data.  I wish there was more that we could do but if the drive is clicking then there is nothing more that can be done.  Professional Data Recovery Service's might be able to get your data back but they usually are VERY expensive so you need to put a price on your data.  Do you need it so bad that you would spend a few grand to get them back or will you leave it in the past and start fresh?