Hi,
I have an old Dell Inspiron 530. I recently added a second hard drive with windows 7 home premium 64 bit with the other one, having upgraded it to, Windows 7 32 bit.
Today I started up the computer and went onto 64 bit windows. Then I went somewhere else and came back. But the computer randomly restarted, even when i didn't log on. So then it went onto boot loader, I presses F12, selected the 64-bit Windows. Soon it said that CHKDSK needed to check the 32 bit hard drive.
So I let it check. After a while it said it was "DELETING ORPHAN FILE RECORD 379823" or something like that. I was anxious and decided to immediately turn off the computer. Then I booted up again, chose the 32-bit hard drive and it loaded up to system recovery. That took about 30 minutes. After that it restarted, I went onto 32 bit windows again and system recovery was doing its final repairs, or so i thought. It said "Windows will boot correctly now". I clicked finish, restarted, chose 32 bit windows. Yes it did boot up, but it booted up showing the User in my 64 bit Windows??
After that I restarted the computer and went onto 64 bit windows, logged in, went onto My Computer. I checked Dad E) and it said NTFS. I tried to access it and it said "Access denied".
This Hard drive contained some important files my dad used. Is there a way of recovering this Hard Drive
*Update* I booted onto the 32 bit version. Then I logged onto the user, checked computer properties and said it was 64 bit operating system? It seems that the hard drive is locked because the computer immediately switched to to the other hard drive with 64 bit. How to access it?
Thanks, Regards,
salm2s
I have an old Dell Inspiron 530. I recently added a second hard drive with windows 7 home premium 64 bit with the other one, having upgraded it to, Windows 7 32 bit.
Today I started up the computer and went onto 64 bit windows. Then I went somewhere else and came back. But the computer randomly restarted, even when i didn't log on. So then it went onto boot loader, I presses F12, selected the 64-bit Windows. Soon it said that CHKDSK needed to check the 32 bit hard drive.
So I let it check. After a while it said it was "DELETING ORPHAN FILE RECORD 379823" or something like that. I was anxious and decided to immediately turn off the computer. Then I booted up again, chose the 32-bit hard drive and it loaded up to system recovery. That took about 30 minutes. After that it restarted, I went onto 32 bit windows again and system recovery was doing its final repairs, or so i thought. It said "Windows will boot correctly now". I clicked finish, restarted, chose 32 bit windows. Yes it did boot up, but it booted up showing the User in my 64 bit Windows??
After that I restarted the computer and went onto 64 bit windows, logged in, went onto My Computer. I checked Dad E) and it said NTFS. I tried to access it and it said "Access denied".
This Hard drive contained some important files my dad used. Is there a way of recovering this Hard Drive
*Update* I booted onto the 32 bit version. Then I logged onto the user, checked computer properties and said it was 64 bit operating system? It seems that the hard drive is locked because the computer immediately switched to to the other hard drive with 64 bit. How to access it?
Thanks, Regards,
salm2s
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