HDD Not Recognized by Windows

[pontiactaylor110ce]

Hi,

I have a HDD that I am trying to retrieve the data from. This hard drive has Windows 8 installed on it. I removed it from the original computer because it won't boot. When I power on the original PC with this Windows 8 HDD in it, it automatically starts "Startup Repair." After a minute, it says "The drive where Windows is installed is locked, please unlock drive to continue." Or something similar to that. I've tried fixes that I have found online, but nothing has worked; so I am just setting out to get the data off of it.

I installed this same hard drive in my Windows 10 desktop and you can hear it power on, but it doesn't show up in "This PC" or in disk management. I am not wanting to boot from this drive, just retrieve the data from it so I can do a fresh install of Windows.

Any advice on how to retrieve the data from this drive?

 

[RolandJS]

What are the specs for this HD? And, was Windows EFS in play before all this happened? BitLocker? Is this a WD Passport or similar HD? Such WDs use DriveLock with or without a password -- on-board/circuit-level encryption is in play whenever that kind of WD HD is in play.

 

[pontiactaylor110ce]

What are the specs for this HD? And, was Windows EFS in play before all this happened? BitLocker? Is this a WD Passport or similar HD? Such WDs use DriveLock with or without a password -- on-board/circuit-level encryption is in play whenever that kind of WD HD is in play.

It is a Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM 3.5" hard drive. Not sure about EFS, but i'm assuming it wasn't. This HDD was pulled from a HP desktop PC running Windows 8

 

[RolandJS]

Your challenge is going to be to determine exactly what is it that locked [and possibly with a password?] that hard-drive. Is it possible to put the HD back into the original computer and boot it?