- Mar 4, 2015
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My old computer died in a fiery blaze of glory, but I was lucky enough that the hard drive didn't die. I went and bought a NexStar.3 external 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure, and I succeeded in moving all my files from the old hard drive onto my new 2tb computer.
The thing is, I kinda liked having an extra 180gig external harddrive lying around so I could move files from place to place and whatnot. Anyway, after I had moved all the files to my new computer, the computer stopped recognizing the external at all. I took the loss, just happy that my media had been salvaged.
Now jump a year in the future, I found it while unpacking and figured I would give it a shot. To my suprise, I actually hear the disk turn on, so I went to check if it was being detected. Now keep in mind, this was once the primary harddrive of a computer, so it contains that 5 gig partition where windows is usually kept. This drive, called RECOVERY (E
is finally showing up, but the remaining 175gigs are not. When I try to run my Disk Management program, It just hangs indefinitely. I was wondering if it's possible to get this external drive working again. If so, it'll make my eventual upgrade to SSD much easier as I'll have a place to back up some of my extra media.
The thing is, I kinda liked having an extra 180gig external harddrive lying around so I could move files from place to place and whatnot. Anyway, after I had moved all the files to my new computer, the computer stopped recognizing the external at all. I took the loss, just happy that my media had been salvaged.
Now jump a year in the future, I found it while unpacking and figured I would give it a shot. To my suprise, I actually hear the disk turn on, so I went to check if it was being detected. Now keep in mind, this was once the primary harddrive of a computer, so it contains that 5 gig partition where windows is usually kept. This drive, called RECOVERY (E
is finally showing up, but the remaining 175gigs are not. When I try to run my Disk Management program, It just hangs indefinitely. I was wondering if it's possible to get this external drive working again. If so, it'll make my eventual upgrade to SSD much easier as I'll have a place to back up some of my extra media.
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