I have searched and searched for an answer to this but cant find one! Can anyone help? I have several hard drives taken from windows 10 and windows 8 laptops that need the data recovering from them. I am running a windows 7 ultimate desktop. I have attempted to put the windows 10/8 hard drives in a dock and power them up. Windows 7 doesn't seem to recognize them, disk management shows them as not initialized. Obviously initializing them will reformat the partition so I can't do that. The only way I have been able to recover anything is with separate recovery software which detects the drives as "lost partition" This then takes 3-4 hours or recovery just to get the files back organised by type rather than by file structure, making it nearly impossible for me to recover any structure with the files. Does anyone have any idea whats going on here and why I cant just fire the drives up and see the structure as I would any other external drive. All the drives are physically sound by the way the issue with the laptops being failed motherboards rather than drive failure.
Windows 10 hard drive
- Thread starter tom0333
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Something else must have happened to those drives, I have never had an issue with just removing a known good drive and being able to read it on another system. Are you sure nothing else was done to them? Drop, someone deleted partitions on them, etc...?
The drives are physically fine, but to test the theory I installed windows 10 on a laptop that was known good working, removed the drive and attached it to the windows 7 ultimate machine via the same dock. Same issue, can see the partition other than lost and not initialized. Tried a different enclosure, same issue so that rules the dock out too. Its bizarre. I'll try and mount the drive internally and reboot, see if it comes up with a drive letter and partition structure but surely this shouldn't be necessary
OK so it appears that both docks that i was using hate windows 10 drives!!?? bizarro but after putting these in a straight forward caddy rather than an over complex multi docking station the file system appears fine. well done USAFRet for the wild stab in the dark solution!!!
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