Hey guys,
Firstly, I’d like to say hello to everyone in the forum. I’m a pretty frequent observer but have never put a word in. But now I’ve got a problem of my own and I’m officially stumped.
I had an HP DV8000 with 2 internal 500GB drives which recently stopped working (fan related). Since I have some very important client information stored on these drives that weren’t backed up (I perform an automatic backup every morning 3am) I figured what I’d do is simply buy another DV8000, place the drives from the defunct laptop to the “new” one. Boy, was I wrong.
I buy the “new’ laptop only to find out that the drive is PATA instead of SATA like on my old laptop. I then purchased an Apricorn 3-in-1 adapter to be able to transfer my files over. Not so easy: XP recognizes the drive but it appears as RAW and when I double click the drive it reads “Disk is not formatted. Would you like to format now?”. Of course I click no.
I’ve tried data recover programs and other methods of recovering the data but I’m confused as to why I should even go in that direction because the drives were brand new when my laptop died.
I’m running WindowsXP Pro.
HPDV8000
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance