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kp616 · 05-27-2009, 09:23 PM

Hi everyone,

I am new to the this message board and am looking for solutions or advice in recovering data from a crashed laptop's hard drive. Here is where I'm at currently:

My laptop will no longer boot (as it has done before) and last time I encountered this problem, I went to BestBuy and bought the RocketFish hard drive enclosure kit. I was able to remove the HD from my laptop and use the enclosure kit to successfully recover all files and put them on a different computer. Then I put the HD back into the crashed laptop and reformatted the drive, problem solved.

This time around, I am going through the same process but when I try to access the drive I am unable to do so. I have the RocketFish enclosure with the crashed laptop's HD in the enclosure and connected to another laptop to extract the files I wish to recover before I reformat the HD. I try to access the files by going to "My Computer" and then clicking on "Local Disk (E". I then try to click on "My Documents" and get the following message: E:\My Documents is not accessible. Incorrect function".

Anyone encounter the same trouble or issue? Any advice on how to access these files I need to recover? Also, is there anyway I can use the Windows recovery disks to fix or reformat this drive without erasing all the files? Thank you for your help!

05-27-2009, 09:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
kp616 New Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4	Hard Drive recovery problems/questions, please help! Hi everyone, I am new to the this message board and am looking for solutions or advice in recovering data from a crashed laptop's hard drive. Here is where I'm at currently: My laptop will no longer boot (as it has done before) and last time I encountered this problem, I went to BestBuy and bought the RocketFish hard drive enclosure kit. I was able to remove the HD from my laptop and use the enclosure kit to successfully recover all files and put them on a different computer. Then I put the HD back into the crashed laptop and reformatted the drive, problem solved. This time around, I am going through the same process but when I try to access the drive I am unable to do so. I have the RocketFish enclosure with the crashed laptop's HD in the enclosure and connected to another laptop to extract the files I wish to recover before I reformat the HD. I try to access the files by going to "My Computer" and then clicking on "Local Disk (E". I then try to click on "My Documents" and get the following message: E:\My Documents is not accessible. Incorrect function". Anyone encounter the same trouble or issue? Any advice on how to access these files I need to recover? Also, is there anyway I can use the Windows recovery disks to fix or reformat this drive without erasing all the files? Thank you for your help!