I don’t think I have ever posted in here. Mostly learn by reading various posts.
My issue; my sister had an old computer that she installed XP on, after a while, the hard drive died. She has alot of important pictures. I have attempted several times to do a data recovery using my computer and just attaching the hard drive externally. It does not show up in BIOS, but will show up under the remove hardware safely tool with the exact name of the hard drive. It doesn’t show up under ‘my computer’. I bought Active File Recovery a long time ago and decided to try to use that, the hard drive shows up on this program but it states it’s not ready and it’s a FAT 12 system. Any idea why a hard drive that was NTFS is now reading FAT 12?
Sidebar, when first plugging into a power source about a minute to two minutes of short beeps, then stops but I hear the motor running.
Bottom line is; is this drive’s data recoverable? I do not want her to toss $1000+ into a professional service if there is no hope.
