A while ago my laptop(win7) would not boot. I bought a new hard drive and replaced it. Trying to get into old hard drive to get 7+ years of info off of it that I didn't happen to have on my external. Initially I was using my desktop(win7), and was part of the way through converting ownership (stupid windows passwords) but it would stop in the middle of converting and I would have to start over.
I ended up needing to change my desktops hard drive and installed Windows 10. Now I try to do the same thing I did before, and convert ownership, but now it says the drive is uninitialized. It did not say this before. It wont show up in Disk Management with my other drive, but shows up as Drive 1 "Uninitialized" and shows up as Unknown in Device Manager.
I tried plugging it into my laptop(win7) and it says it is uninitialized as well.
What can I do without losing everything?
If I update my drivers for that hard drive, would that help/hurt?
If I initialize, it will wipe my hard drive. Then I have to recover it, but there are no clear choices for recovery software. And I also really don't want to do this if there is a different way.
I'm quite stressed out over this, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Update - I downloaded Minitool Partition Wizard and it does not find the drive.
I downloaded DiskDoctors Data Recovery (demo) and a quick scan for partitions does not find anything. A thorough scan asks for sectors to scan. Starts with 0-0, but if I put 0-1 it says I must select a smaller number of sectors than there are total. Does this mean there are zero sectors?
I ended up needing to change my desktops hard drive and installed Windows 10. Now I try to do the same thing I did before, and convert ownership, but now it says the drive is uninitialized. It did not say this before. It wont show up in Disk Management with my other drive, but shows up as Drive 1 "Uninitialized" and shows up as Unknown in Device Manager.
I tried plugging it into my laptop(win7) and it says it is uninitialized as well.
What can I do without losing everything?
If I update my drivers for that hard drive, would that help/hurt?
If I initialize, it will wipe my hard drive. Then I have to recover it, but there are no clear choices for recovery software. And I also really don't want to do this if there is a different way.
I'm quite stressed out over this, and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Update - I downloaded Minitool Partition Wizard and it does not find the drive.
I downloaded DiskDoctors Data Recovery (demo) and a quick scan for partitions does not find anything. A thorough scan asks for sectors to scan. Starts with 0-0, but if I put 0-1 it says I must select a smaller number of sectors than there are total. Does this mean there are zero sectors?
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