Old HDD not showing up on new laptop

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Slick.User

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Hi,

My old laptop was dead. I would like to recover the data from my old laptop HDD.
I purchased a ugreen USB 2.0 to SATA converter cable.

After plugged in, I was only see the device in the Device Manager but not on my computer.

How can I see the old disk? Disk 1 is showing as Invalid.

In Device Manager, it show as "Mass Storage Device USB Device" under Disk drive.

Thanks.



C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.14393.0

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-UHQCD3M

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Invalid 465 GB 0 B *

DISKPART>
 
It does depend on why your old laptop died. If the hard drive stopped working then you may nor be able to recover any data off the old disk. That converter is powered by the USB port, unless you are using an external power supply with it, and there may not be enough power from the USB port to run it. The hard drive may have been damaged when you removed it from the old laptop. What shows up in "Disk Management"? Right click the start icon and choose "Disk mangement." You do need to be careful when using Disk manager as it might say your drive needs formatting. If you do that then any data will be lost and a file recovery program might be needed.
 
If DiskPart is showing it as invalid it's almost guaranteed dead. Run Seatools on it, should fail pretty quickly if Windows already tells you it's invalid.
 
You just need to go to Disk Management, and it should provide you with a prompt to initialise it. Look at Disk Management.
 
USB converter is power via a power jack.

Disk Management shows
Disk 1
Dynamic
Invalid

SeaTools shows:
Short DST - Pass
Short Generic - Pass
 
Okedokey said:
You just need to go to Disk Management, and it should provide you with a prompt to initialise it. Look at Disk Management.
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The OP doesn't want to do that since he's trying to recover his data. The data may not be recoverable, but initializing (formatting) it would make things worse.
 
strollin said:
The OP doesn't want to do that since he's trying to recover his data. The data may not be recoverable, but initializing (formatting) it would make things worse.
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Nope, a quick format is the best way to make the disk accessible and recover the data using something like Recuva. If he cannot access the disk or wants to leave it as is, then testdisk is probably the best course of action.
 
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