I had a laptop that stopped booting so in an effort to recover the data i picked up a USB hard drive enclosure which i put the drive in and then connected to my Windows XP home computer.
The problem started here and when i try to open my computer it just freezes up and doesn’t respond. the manual on the enclosure said something about creating a partition but i can’t seem to figure out how to do that on my desktop drive without reformating it (i have 100 gigs of free space but it is already allocated) and the help tells me that i need unallocated space to create the partition.
in looking at the computer management screen for storage it shows the laptop hard drive listed as
Volume (F:)
layout partion
type basic
Files System is blank (my c: drive is NTFS)
status healthy active
capacity is 27.9GB
Free space is 27.9GB (which confusses me since this drive has at least 20 GB used)
I’m guessing the problem is that my desktop isnt’ recognizing the file system can anybody help me?
is there more info required, i’m a novice.