Hi everyone,
So basically here's the deal. My laptop recently died, don't know what might have killed it but could only access bios. FeelsBadMan
So, I tried recovering important data from the laptop HDD using an external case which made my internal HDD into an external one.
Fair enough, I plugged it into my other desktop computer and I can't access anything from it. Not being an expert here, I have the feeling that it does stop every communication between my computer and my working HDD/SDD (e.g. : accessing it in "This computer" tab makes my PC freeze, accessing it with "Western Digital's Data lifeguard" make the software stop working which leads to a "Windows Explorer stopped working",) + every disk related command in the command prompt, whether it is in admin mode or not, just doesn't stop loading (e.g. : Diskpart, ...).
But whenever I unplug the non-working HDD, it directly unfreezes the computer and everything's alright. I'm now at a point where I don't even care anymore about the data, I just want to format the HDD so it doesnt go to waste, but since I can't access it, I didn't find a way to format it.
N.B : The non-working HDD specs are : Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 Go.
Thanks for reading folks.
So basically here's the deal. My laptop recently died, don't know what might have killed it but could only access bios. FeelsBadMan
So, I tried recovering important data from the laptop HDD using an external case which made my internal HDD into an external one.
Fair enough, I plugged it into my other desktop computer and I can't access anything from it. Not being an expert here, I have the feeling that it does stop every communication between my computer and my working HDD/SDD (e.g. : accessing it in "This computer" tab makes my PC freeze, accessing it with "Western Digital's Data lifeguard" make the software stop working which leads to a "Windows Explorer stopped working",) + every disk related command in the command prompt, whether it is in admin mode or not, just doesn't stop loading (e.g. : Diskpart, ...).
But whenever I unplug the non-working HDD, it directly unfreezes the computer and everything's alright. I'm now at a point where I don't even care anymore about the data, I just want to format the HDD so it doesnt go to waste, but since I can't access it, I didn't find a way to format it.
N.B : The non-working HDD specs are : Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 Go.
Thanks for reading folks.