- Jun 23, 2015
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Hi there,
I have a friend that needs to recover pictures from his "Hitachi Travelstar HTS541616J9SA00" laptop's HDD by my attempting to put it in my current desktop PC.
Both HDD connectors work just fine. The system BIOS properly detects the old drive's specs. However, I don't know how to boot into the operating system. There's evidently a missing piece to the puzzle that keeps "Windows normally", "Safe mode", etc. from booting past the drivers.
Once the drivers load my system simply restarts, briefly mentions "Press F11 for recovery", back to the BIOS load screen (Press F2 for boot options/F12 for setup), rests on the Windows startup mode selection and naturally repeats if nothing is pressed after 30 seconds.
I don't know how to determine if the drive is too corrupt/dead to boot into, or if there's merely a simple step(s) keeping it from booting to Windows.
Any advice?
Thanks
I have a friend that needs to recover pictures from his "Hitachi Travelstar HTS541616J9SA00" laptop's HDD by my attempting to put it in my current desktop PC.
Both HDD connectors work just fine. The system BIOS properly detects the old drive's specs. However, I don't know how to boot into the operating system. There's evidently a missing piece to the puzzle that keeps "Windows normally", "Safe mode", etc. from booting past the drivers.
Once the drivers load my system simply restarts, briefly mentions "Press F11 for recovery", back to the BIOS load screen (Press F2 for boot options/F12 for setup), rests on the Windows startup mode selection and naturally repeats if nothing is pressed after 30 seconds.
I don't know how to determine if the drive is too corrupt/dead to boot into, or if there's merely a simple step(s) keeping it from booting to Windows.
Any advice?
Thanks
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