Old data recovery

C_lumbard

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Apr 15, 2014
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My old laptop gave up the ghost. I have just got a new laptop and I am trying to recover my old data. I got a USB IDE SATE Cable. I have plugged this in to my old harddrive and laptop. In the device manager is shows its there but I cant access it.
Can anyone help or Point me in the direction of some software? I am running windows 8.
I assumed I could be able to just plug it in an pull files.
 

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If Device Manager shows it - It's a good sign.
Go to Disk Manager assign a drive letter to it, then you are good to go.

For what ever reason, if your system asking to format or partition - DO NOT proceed, you may loose your data.
This case, you hdd may be corrupted, or damage. You may need to do data recovery