Hard Drive Recovery Help

I recently lost my dv pavillion 6000 due to motherboard issues,i took off the Hard drive n got an hard drive adapter,i tried recovering my files back from another notebook,but the notebook wont read the Hard drive,i was told because i had a password with my previous computer,i don't know how true this is,any geek in the house willing to help,My Hp notebook was a vista,I will appreciate any help n willing to pay for it.Thanks

 

How are you trying to read the hard-drive? Did you place it in an external enclosure and try to pull the files off like that?

Or did you try to boot the drive in another laptop. If you tried to boot it in another laptop it won't work. Pull via an external enclosure. If that doesn't work, someone else might have some ideas.

 

If you ENCRYPTED the drive, then you will not be able to recover the files. If you simply password protected the profile with a windows login, then you can retrieve them by taking ownership of the folders the files are in

 

(if you dont have one) Look into a 2.5" USB SATA Harddrive Enclosure. You want that. Then plug it into a USB Port on the other computer and you can access the files.

I belive the dv6000 is SATA HDD. ANyone want tot back me up on that?

If so, something like THIS is what you need,

 

Most likely 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive. ahl395 is correct, try the enclosure.

 

okay i did,but it says usb unrecognised,i only have the windows login password,i didnt encrypt any files.

 

where does it say usb unrecognized? we need exacting details if you want help

 

If you didn’t use special encryption software, then the only way your documents can be password protected is due to NTFS security. However, NTFS security can be easily overridden from another computer running Windows. All you have to do is take ownership of the folder and replace security permissions; but in order to do that you first have to properly connect the hard drive. USB errors or any other hardware errors that you are getting now has nothing to do with NTFS security, either you are not using the enclosure properly or your hard drive is dead.

Give a detailed description of what type of an enclosure you used, how you connected it, what is the error you get etc..

 

if you did bios password hard disk then need remove that or crack password on disk

do you have anythey laptop you cound stick and use it enter password then disable it??

 

Thanks all,i did i just all u said and it did work,i think the usb cord was bad and i also took ownership of the file as instructed,thanks all.


Now who got a laptop for sale..lol