Hi,
I recently had my laptop hard drive replaced and now wish to transfer data from the old hard drive back onto the laptop.
I purchased a brand new USB to SATA cable which appears to be recognised by the computer (in device manager), however, the HDD does not show under "Removable storage devices" as I believe it should. The HDD does spin; as the power is connected with the cable.
Can somebody please suggest what I could do to resolve this... Most forums I've read online seem to be too different to my case. Could it be a corrupt HDD (which may have been the reason it had to be replaced)?? If so, is there some way I can still retrieve the data as I really need it?
I really don't understand how I would go about this as I'm too inexperienced with this stuff. Thanks for any help.
**Edit: On this occasion, My Computer shows 'Local disks' in E:, F: and G: but is wanting to format it, which I know will wipe the data. How could I go about possibly retrieving the data if I can get it recognized again? (it's a WD Scorpio Blue 750GB if that helps.)
I recently had my laptop hard drive replaced and now wish to transfer data from the old hard drive back onto the laptop.
I purchased a brand new USB to SATA cable which appears to be recognised by the computer (in device manager), however, the HDD does not show under "Removable storage devices" as I believe it should. The HDD does spin; as the power is connected with the cable.
Can somebody please suggest what I could do to resolve this... Most forums I've read online seem to be too different to my case. Could it be a corrupt HDD (which may have been the reason it had to be replaced)?? If so, is there some way I can still retrieve the data as I really need it?
I really don't understand how I would go about this as I'm too inexperienced with this stuff. Thanks for any help.
**Edit: On this occasion, My Computer shows 'Local disks' in E:, F: and G: but is wanting to format it, which I know will wipe the data. How could I go about possibly retrieving the data if I can get it recognized again? (it's a WD Scorpio Blue 750GB if that helps.)