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    Acer laptop hdd failed - trying to recover thru usb enclosure

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by courtsjoe, Jan 19, 2009.

  1. courtsjoe

    courtsjoe Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey guys...

    i have an acer who recently stuffed up on me.. i havent tried to boot from cd to reinstall windows etc yet because i want to try salvage some of the data from it - photograhs, music etc.

    I have an USB ide enclosure which i use with other 2.5" IDE hdd's and it works fine. However when i plug in the HDD from my failed acer laptop into it, it doesnt come up on "my computer"

    it is visible under disk management but i cant seem to make it an accessible drive to copy things from it

    Im using vista ultimate 64bit

    any ideas?

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    courtsjoe, Jan 19, 2009
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    $n!pR Notebook Guru

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    You have to map it to a drive letter. Right click it and select a drive letter.
     
    $n!pR, Jan 19, 2009
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  3. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    To allocate a drive letter to it you would need to format it, thus, deleting the data!!!!!

    Not sure if this would work, but might be worth trying a linux LiveCD. Just boot it from CD, and see if you can access the drive from there.

    If this does not work, you may have to try some data recovery software.
     
    Full-English, Jan 19, 2009
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    courtsjoe Notebook Enthusiast

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    i cant assign a letter to it. it doesnt let me all it lets me do is see that the "device is working properly" i cant access anything inside of it.. its mental... there must be another way instead or live cd?? (as its linux and im vista ult 64bit)
     
    courtsjoe, Jan 20, 2009
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    If you use a Linux Live CD it won't install anything, it will run of your CD and RAM, it's an option, so as to try and get the data. Otherwise, it looks as if you need to use data recovery software.
     
    Full-English, Jan 20, 2009
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