Boot up a copy of linux, live cd, and see what it has to say about the disk.
Good Morning,
I am wondering if anyone can offer any suggestions how I may gain access to an early USB 2/3 HDD, that I haven't used for a couple of years - I am on an ASUS TP500L running win 8.1, 8 gig Ram and an I7 processor.
When I connect it to the computer it is acknowledged as a local disk but anything I try to do after that freezes the computer so I cannot access any files, I am pretty sure I have backed it up but I want to see if there is anything I may have missed.
I have to check out all possibilities before I give it to a computer engineer friend who will give it a slow format and lose everything that is on it.
Any thoughts?
TIA

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