- Apr 17, 2013
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So the story is this:
Damaged hard drive on laptop, installed new hard drive with new Windows 7 installation, I connected the damaged hard drive with a USB but Windows just won't even open it up, installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a USB, booted into Ubuntu, started copying files from damaged HDD to new HDD, switch back to Windows and I couldn't even see the damn files even though I could tell the new HDD was fuller than before. Then after a reboot Windows did a chkdsk and completely removed all the files from the new HDD.
So my question is this, how can I copy files from old HDD to new HDD through an Ubuntu Live CD?
(at one point in Windows it managed to read the old HDD and I managed to take ownership of the whole thing)
(I also know that I can simply copy files onto a different USB and then boot back into Windows and copy them back, but seeing as I've got about 500GB of files, using a 2GB USB will take ages)
Please help, this is doing my head in.
Damaged hard drive on laptop, installed new hard drive with new Windows 7 installation, I connected the damaged hard drive with a USB but Windows just won't even open it up, installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a USB, booted into Ubuntu, started copying files from damaged HDD to new HDD, switch back to Windows and I couldn't even see the damn files even though I could tell the new HDD was fuller than before. Then after a reboot Windows did a chkdsk and completely removed all the files from the new HDD.
So my question is this, how can I copy files from old HDD to new HDD through an Ubuntu Live CD?
(at one point in Windows it managed to read the old HDD and I managed to take ownership of the whole thing)
(I also know that I can simply copy files onto a different USB and then boot back into Windows and copy them back, but seeing as I've got about 500GB of files, using a 2GB USB will take ages)
Please help, this is doing my head in.
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