I recently did a fresh install onto a new harddrive because the old hard drives operating system crashed. Now I want to grab some files off the old one but I have to plug it in when the computers already on and loaded, I cant leave it plugged in when I shut down or turn on computer.
Plugging in old hard drive stops windows 7 startup
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John Philips
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Boot from usb using a live distro of linux (can be ubuntu) and copy whatever you want, then take the old of and boot your windows normally.
cherry blossoms
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You still have the bootloader info from that drive setup, and the drive most likely still contains partition information indicating it is active system. You will need to set the old drive as not the system drive
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