I had a hard drive crash last week. It did the click of death for about a day then went kaput. I've got a new one installed (and the problems I'm having with that one are for another time...) So, I wanted to data recover the old one if possible, but every time I hook it up my entire system slows down and windows never sees it. I've tried to enable via disk management, but still nothing. I noticed when immediately after it crashed it would boot and essentially say to boot from another drive. Well, as I was setting up the new hard drive I noticed if you don't change the boot device and let the PC try to boot from a blank drive it gave the exact same message which made me wonder if the old drive is now basically blank.
I hadn't installed a new Windows in so long so I'm curious now... When installing the new OS there is a step early on where the Win7 installer asks where to install to, it lists the drive options and states available space. I was wondering if I put the old drive in and started as though I was fresh installing Win7 if I could get far enough into the install process to just see how much space the installer says is on the disk, without overwriting anything on the disk (because I intend to seek an outside data recovery option on it). I figure if the installer tells me all space is available then somehow the disk erased itself (does that even happen?) and data recovery would be a waste of money anyways.
Thank you very much.
I hadn't installed a new Windows in so long so I'm curious now... When installing the new OS there is a step early on where the Win7 installer asks where to install to, it lists the drive options and states available space. I was wondering if I put the old drive in and started as though I was fresh installing Win7 if I could get far enough into the install process to just see how much space the installer says is on the disk, without overwriting anything on the disk (because I intend to seek an outside data recovery option on it). I figure if the installer tells me all space is available then somehow the disk erased itself (does that even happen?) and data recovery would be a waste of money anyways.
Thank you very much.
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