My Acer 5742 stopped working. It was a hard drive issue. I had installed windows 8 in a new partition so that I could keep W7 and things went downhill after that. I had been able to copy most but not all of the files I wanted before it failed. I removed the hard drive and put it in an external case and hooked it up to my old xp desktop. There were no files showing on the drive. After the hourglass spun for awhile, all I got was a message asking if I wanted to format the drive which I didn't do. I downloaded recuva and it recognized the deleted files and said it ignored 127,000 others but said they were ignored. I'm pretty sure those are the files I want to access but I don't know how to get recuva to list them for recovery.
In addition I download ubuntu (an older version that would work on xp) hoping to get a look at the files. From that I got a message saying it couldn't open the ntfs files but I could, at my own risk, force an opening on the command line. I'm hoping I can get it open without doing that. I know having an older computer with outdated software doesn't help the situation but it's all I have until I can afford a new hard drive or fix this one.
It's maddening that they are there recognized but inaccessible. I'm not super computer savvy, I've been looking these things up and following directions. Any help and clear directions would be appreciated.
In addition I download ubuntu (an older version that would work on xp) hoping to get a look at the files. From that I got a message saying it couldn't open the ntfs files but I could, at my own risk, force an opening on the command line. I'm hoping I can get it open without doing that. I know having an older computer with outdated software doesn't help the situation but it's all I have until I can afford a new hard drive or fix this one.
It's maddening that they are there recognized but inaccessible. I'm not super computer savvy, I've been looking these things up and following directions. Any help and clear directions would be appreciated.
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