Accessing Compaq HD in external enclosure with Gateway computer - TechRepublic
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March 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM
noofies

Accessing Compaq HD in external enclosure with Gateway computer

by noofies . Updated 18 years, 3 months ago

My Compaq (running XP) bit the dust a couple of weeks ago when a dog chewed the cable to my USB-powered speakers and fried the motherboard. I KNOW my data is still on the HD, the geeks at Best Buy were able to see it. I purchased a new Gateway (running Vista), and an external hard drive enclosure so I could transfer data from the old drive to the new one, then reformat the old drive and use it for backups. The problem is, all I can see is the recovery partition on the old drive, but not the data. Please tell me there’s a way I can transfer my data to the new drive myself!

EDIT: Nevermind. I fixed it. 🙂

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