Hello everyone!
I am new to the forums and my name is Kevin.
Sorry in advance if the following is too long. I just want to be very detailed in hopes it helps others understand what might have went wrong.
I put a hard drive from my PC into my hard drive dock which was connected to my laptop.
The hard drive had Windows 7 on it, and my laptop is using WIndows 8.1
While I was able to access one partition with some of my photography images
I couldn't access the folder under my admin account cause for some reason my password wasn't getting accepted.
I used the "Remove Hardware" button and that worked.
I later tried again to access the password protected folders and this time the "Remove Hardware" button didn't work.
I closed my laptop so it would go to sleep and I waited.
Then I made sure the lights weren't blinking on the hard drive dock (and also the laptop LEDs) and turned off the dock.
I do this with my other hard drives with no problems.
And I wasn't downloading or uploading anything.
Then I tried again later, and I could access some partitions but not others.
(I could access my photos, but the partition with Windows was not accessible).
I put the hard drive into another tower (as the original tower didn't have an HDMI port and I am at my moms place and only have a large screen TV with hdmi ports and no monitor).
Windows failed to boot, and windows recovery couldn't fix the problem.
Did I break the hard drive? Is Windows not booting because the hard drive is in a new tower.
Is the PC/tower I put the hard drive in not working?
While all the photos on the hard drive in question are backed up, there are some files on there I would like to access.
Thank you so much for reading this and thank you in advance for any help you can offer!
Sincerely,
Kevin H.
P.S. Eeek, I edited the title of this post to be more clear but my message shot to the top of the listings.
Sorry, didn't mean to do that... {removed by Moderator}
I am new to the forums and my name is Kevin.
Sorry in advance if the following is too long. I just want to be very detailed in hopes it helps others understand what might have went wrong.
I put a hard drive from my PC into my hard drive dock which was connected to my laptop.
The hard drive had Windows 7 on it, and my laptop is using WIndows 8.1
While I was able to access one partition with some of my photography images
I couldn't access the folder under my admin account cause for some reason my password wasn't getting accepted.
I used the "Remove Hardware" button and that worked.
I later tried again to access the password protected folders and this time the "Remove Hardware" button didn't work.
I closed my laptop so it would go to sleep and I waited.
Then I made sure the lights weren't blinking on the hard drive dock (and also the laptop LEDs) and turned off the dock.
I do this with my other hard drives with no problems.
And I wasn't downloading or uploading anything.
Then I tried again later, and I could access some partitions but not others.
(I could access my photos, but the partition with Windows was not accessible).
I put the hard drive into another tower (as the original tower didn't have an HDMI port and I am at my moms place and only have a large screen TV with hdmi ports and no monitor).
Windows failed to boot, and windows recovery couldn't fix the problem.
Did I break the hard drive? Is Windows not booting because the hard drive is in a new tower.
Is the PC/tower I put the hard drive in not working?
While all the photos on the hard drive in question are backed up, there are some files on there I would like to access.
Thank you so much for reading this and thank you in advance for any help you can offer!
Sincerely,
Kevin H.
P.S. Eeek, I edited the title of this post to be more clear but my message shot to the top of the listings.
Sorry, didn't mean to do that... {removed by Moderator}
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