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    Laptop failed - Trying to recover data from 2.5" IDE HDD thru external USB enclosure

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by courtsjoe, Jan 14, 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 14, 2009
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