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Question

From Hard Drive to New Notebook

Jul 27, 2017 2:55PM PDT

Believe in me, I read a lot about it but nothing helped.

I took out the Hard Drive from Broken Notebook with Win 10, and
I have connected it to the New Notebook with Win 8.1.

There where I am, nothing is happening.
I have to return the broken notebook tomorrow.....!

I am not good with computers but I have to use them.

Thank you in advance.

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Clarification Request
What are you trying to do?
Jul 27, 2017 3:06PM PDT

Copy files out?

I'll have to know a lot more. Such as how connected and if anyone encrypted the drive.

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Yes, I am trying to copy the files.
Jul 27, 2017 4:41PM PDT

Thank you so much.

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This is the cable I have used.

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I had an old computer and I have done the same thing last year with this cable and it worked. I do not remember if any information appeared on the screen that guided me.

Old hardware came from Win 7 notebook and have connected to the Win 8.1

I don't know if it is because from Win 10 this time. But, new notebook has recognized the connection because for a split second a message came on to screen and quickly disappeared.

I could not read the message well but I think it said that it was the word initializing something.

Post was last edited on July 27, 2017 4:43 PM PDT

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Did you try RECUVA yet?
Jul 27, 2017 4:58PM PDT

If the drive shows up in Device Management it may be corrupted or encrypted. Try RECUVA next to scan for files on the drive.

Remember it's a FREE APP. If something tries to sell you something, wrong app or site.

Read https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

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Thank You Thank You R. Proffitt
Jul 28, 2017 10:48AM PDT

I have downloaded RECUVA, and I clicked on Documents and have found some 7 strange files, tried to open them one by one, and the files I was trying to copy were in one of them ....so , thank you. You can not believe how important this was for me.

But, I don't know if this means they are permanently installed in in my hard drive that is in my new notebook, or I have to do something to make them permanent. MY old hard drive is still connected to my notebook , I am afraid to move it, will wait for your reply. This is at the top of the files, This . PC > Windows E > Users > cart > Documents does it tell you something

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If you can see the file, DO NOT OPEN. COPY!!!
Jul 28, 2017 12:23PM PDT

We never touch the drive that we are trying to recover from. We don't open files on that drive, we only copy files off.

Folk new to data recovery learn this lesson pretty fast. Recuva is nice since it by default only allows us to copy files out of the banged up file system.