winxpuser50
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I'm trying to rescue some files from a Toshiba hard drive that had stopped booting up WinXP (Service Pack 2). I just installed a new 120GB hard drive in a Toshiba laptop and my plan was to transfer whatever files I could from my old drive to the new one.
I have the old drive in a SATA enclosure, it powers on fine, the drive is spinning and when i plug in the usb ports, WinXP recognizes the drive as D:
but it recognizes it as a CD-rom, not as a hard drive. When I try to open it, it opens as an audio file instead of a hard drive. I presume the usb connection is okay otherwise it wouldn't recognize the drive at all. I hear the drive spinning and the LED light on the drive enclosure is on, so I think this is probably a situation where I just need to rename the drive? It has assigned it a drive letter of D but the mystery is why it calls it a CD instead of a hard drive.
I notice in my icon on my Toshiba laptop at the bottom that it recognizes it as a SATA bridge device (the hardware), but in My Computers it shows it as a CD-rom device. Clearly, there's some type of incompatability that needs to be corrected so that I can open the drive up and have a chance to rescue/recover some of my important files off the disk.
Can anybody help me with this? I don't think the drive is "fried" or dead, if it were, it wouldn't be spinning, and it wouldn't recognize any device in My Computer, but it does recognize it and assign it a letter. I totally was surprised when it called it a CD-rom device! So frustrating, I was really close (I hoped) to opening this drive and getting at least some of my files off of it....thanks again.
I have the old drive in a SATA enclosure, it powers on fine, the drive is spinning and when i plug in the usb ports, WinXP recognizes the drive as D:
but it recognizes it as a CD-rom, not as a hard drive. When I try to open it, it opens as an audio file instead of a hard drive. I presume the usb connection is okay otherwise it wouldn't recognize the drive at all. I hear the drive spinning and the LED light on the drive enclosure is on, so I think this is probably a situation where I just need to rename the drive? It has assigned it a drive letter of D but the mystery is why it calls it a CD instead of a hard drive.
I notice in my icon on my Toshiba laptop at the bottom that it recognizes it as a SATA bridge device (the hardware), but in My Computers it shows it as a CD-rom device. Clearly, there's some type of incompatability that needs to be corrected so that I can open the drive up and have a chance to rescue/recover some of my important files off the disk.
Can anybody help me with this? I don't think the drive is "fried" or dead, if it were, it wouldn't be spinning, and it wouldn't recognize any device in My Computer, but it does recognize it and assign it a letter. I totally was surprised when it called it a CD-rom device! So frustrating, I was really close (I hoped) to opening this drive and getting at least some of my files off of it....thanks again.