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    Hard Drive from Inspiron 1520

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Asphedus1, Dec 17, 2010.

  1. Asphedus1

    Asphedus1 Newbie

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    Hey all, my DELL INSPIRON 1520 died on me a while back, and I wanted to transfer the files I had on the harddrive of the laptop onto my new desktop.

    I bought a SATA converter and I can access my C: drive, but I can't access my D drive.

    Any help?
     
    Asphedus1, Dec 17, 2010
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Did you partition your hard drive to have a 2nd partition? Sometimes D drive is your recovery partition.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 18, 2010
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    Robin24k Notebook Deity

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    Check Disk Management and make sure there are actually two partitions there. It's also possible that the second partition didn't get assigned a drive letter, so you may need to do that manually.
     
    Robin24k, Dec 19, 2010
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