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Vostro 1500 The disk structure is corrupt or not readable

by Mar 5, 2014 1:20PM PST

I have an older laptop Dell Vostro 1500, I turned it on one and I got a black screen, No biggie I bought a new laptop, but I realized that I have things on the old lap that I want. I was told to buy SATA/ IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter. I did, I get it set up and I try it and I get "the disk structure is corrupt or unreadable". I have tried connecting using desktop (win 8.1) and a different lap with win 7 both try's same result the corrupt an unreadable message. Pleas help.

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Try a Linux boot CD/DVD and see if Linux sees it.
by Forum moderator Mar 5, 2014 10:41PM PST

Keep in mind that pulling a drive over like this works -> most of the time <-

There are a few reasons why it won't such as if the drive was encrypted or had a fault.
Bob

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Checkout...
by Mar 6, 2014 4:58AM PST

You may have found the crux of orginial problem a bad or corrupt HD. It continues because you're dealing with the HD alone and the old laptop maybe working. YOU as the user have only 1 option left other than some data retieve service is to use some "recovery software". Google away and try the freebie out there, I suggest FileRecoveryInspector.

http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools

This doesn't rule out a real h/w fault. if that's the case and data is that important use the recovery services available, expensive option though.

tada -----Willy Happy

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 6, 2014 5:03AM PST

I unlocked the forum sticky for you to add this one. nice list.

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