I'm fairly good with computers but am having a problem and could use some help.
A friend of mine had her eMachine D2386 go belly up on her (looks like fried mobo). She asked me if I could get her financial documents off her hard drive for her. Told her sure no problem.
Brought the HD home and plugged it into my 3.5" external HD enclosure.
My computer could see that there was a HD connected (showed the model number) but I was unable to see the drive when I went into "my computer".
Tried it on another computer just to make sure there wasn't some kind of glitch with my system.
Same results... couldn't see drive but could tell it was there by viewing the properties for "usb mass storage device" under when I went to "safely remove hardware".
So I decided to nix the external HD enclosure and go with just running it as a slave drive on the IDE cable in my computer.
When my computer POST's I can see the model number and it says it is set to slave which is what I wanted... but of course as before when I go to try to view the drive in "my computer" it isn't there. grrrrrrr
I know she has a password protecting her computer... but I've never had a problem viewing the files on a HD if it was hooked up as a slave on my system.
Is there some kind of odd proprietary eMachine thing happening here involving the HD being password protected or something?
Without buying and replacing the mobo on her system, how can I view the files, so that I can get her pictures and documents off the hard drive?
I went under "properties" for the this disk. Under "volumes" it is blank for all fields.
Disk -
Type -
Status -
Partition style -
Capacity -
Unallocated space -
Reserved space -
I tried clicking on "Populate" and it brought up the following:
Disk "Disk 1"
Type "Basic"
Status "Online"
Partition style "Master Boot Record (MBR)"
Capacity "76317 MB"
Unallocated space "0 MB"
Reserved space "0 MB"
and where it was blank at the bottom under volume and capacity it now says:
home base for volume type and 76317 MB for capacity
went into "my computer" and it's still not there.
Then went back under the Properties tab for the drive and all the info was blank again.
Disk -
Type -
Status -
Partition style -
Capacity -
Unallocated space -
Reserved space -
Not sure if any of that is any help but thought I'd mention it.
For XP, in Disk Management, right click on the relevant partition (graphic) and you should get a menu with Change Drive Letter... In Vista I believe the process is similar but you need to "Import" the filing system (don't like Vista, so I keep away from it).