How do i recover music from my old HDD?

I built a new pc, and all I have left of my old one is a 1TB HDD with windows 7 on it, and I have been googling for hours trying to figure out how to get the music off of it. I have a docking station but it just shows Local Disk H, and says I need to format the drive in order to use it, and clicking properties shows theres nothing even on it. Someone please help I have years of music I don't want to lose. The Docking Station is the Blac X USB 2.0. Running Windows 10 also.

Alright an update, I hooked the HDD up right into the motherboard just like my other one, and made sure my pc still booted off my SSD, everything booted up fine, but it still showed up as a drive I couldn't access, and asked to format it once again. I'll continue tomorrow hopefully with some of yalls advice. The HDD in question had nothing wrong with it I just sold my pc to my roomate, and built another, so this isn't a failed HDD recovery attempt.

Unfortunately, when you get that error message, it means something is wrong with the drive. The only thing you can do now is run the drive makers disk diagnostic utility and hope that it repairs whatever the issue is. What brand and model of drive do you have?

I'd run a chkdsk on it (chkdsk /r H: ).

Depending on what happened to it before the HDD could be failing or have a corrupt file system.

You could also try booting to a linux recovery environment such as Mini Windows XP or PartedMagic.

beers said:

I'd run a chkdsk on it (chkdsk /r H: ).

Depending on what happened to it before the HDD could be failing or have a corrupt file system.

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I tried this last night, don't remember the error, and I'm at work so I can't look but it didn't work. I'll try what the other guy suggested later. I don't see how the drive would go bad I literally took it out, and popped it into my docking station, and now here I am.

If there's an error running chkdsk then you have some problems.

beers said:

If there's an error running chkdsk then you have some problems.

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Does it matter the hdd has an operating system on it?

No, chkdsk just verifies data at a file system level. Existing Windows files are just files.

Another thing, when i plug the HDD in I get a 100mb System reserved that appears, along with the H drive I cannot access if that means anything. I just typed CHKDSK D: /F H, from what I read that should try, and repair this drive, so ill post back when this is done

C:\Windows\system32>(chkdsk /r H: )
The type of the file system is NTFS.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
290304 file records processed.
File verification completed.
1683 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
Deleting index entry SEP931C.tmp in index $I30 of file 1902.
379092 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is scanning unindexed files for reconnect to their original directory.
Recovering orphaned file SEP7369.tmp (93082) into directory file 1902.
2 unindexed files scanned.
Recovering orphaned file {BC1BF~1 (228205) into directory file 3528.
Recovering orphaned file {bc1bf96c-3d74-46a2-b903-106f170c0a97} (228205) into directory file 3528.
2 unindexed files recovered to original directory.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
44395 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.

Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data ...
Progress: 26978 of 290288 done; Stage: 9%; Total: 0%; ETA: 11:49:54 ..

This froze at 20% so i gave up, now it just says invalid parameter when trying to do it again.

Your drive sounds like its toast.

voyagerfan99 said:

Your drive sounds like its toast.

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This.