help seeing USB 2.0 hard drive in windows 10

[mraroid]

Hi folks...

I have a Asus R510D laptop that is overheating. I am looking for a replacement fan for it. The Asus is running Windows 10, but I can't remember if it is 32 bit or 64 bit. When I boot the laptop, I can get to the sign on screen asking for my password. But then the computer shuts down. In the past it would only run for maybe 5 or 10 minutes before it would shut down. I wish my girlfriend would have told me she was having issues with it before it got so bad.... Anyway....

I need to access the data on the hard drive in this laptop. So I removed the hard drive, and put it in a USB 2.0 adapter case. The adaptop case has two USB 2.0 plugs on it. I think this is for accessing enought power from the USB port (s) to power up the hard drive. The drive is a 5400 RPM mechanical hard drive. I plugged the hard rive into a USB port on my windows 10 desktop. The desktop said that windows could not access the hard drive and it was probably broken. I moved the hard drive in it's USB 2.0 adapter to another computer running windows 10. I received the same error message. Both of my windows 10 computers are 64 bit. I tried different USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. I can hear the drive spin up when it is pluged into a USB 2.0 port. When the drive in plugged into a USB 2.0 port the light on the USB 2.0 adapter turns on.

I went to control panel and selected admin tools, computer management, disk management. It could not see the hard drive. I rebooted the desktop. Same issue.

My desktop computer has a port where you can plug in a laptop hard drive or a desktop hard drive. I plugged the laptop hard drive into this port and had the same issue.

I will have access to another computer running Windows 7, 64 bit in a few days. I will plug this hard drive into it and see if it can recognize it.

My questions....

If the asus laptop is 32 bit, will any of my 64 bit computers be able to see it?

If that is not the issues, why is it that my two windows 10 computers can not see this hard drive?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

mraroid

 

[Paul NZ]

Doesnt matter if the hdd has 32 or 64 bit on it.

If it's working any computer should detect it / and you should be able to access it

Altho you may have to take ownership of a hdd (if its from another system) to get access to it

The hdd from the laptop may also have some security feature on it or in the BIOS. So like what youre trying to do now, someone cant get access to it. If they remove it and try to get into it

 

[mraroid]

Doesnt matter if the hdd has 32 or 64 bit on it.

If it's working any computer should detect it / and you should be able to access it

Altho you may have to take ownership of a hdd (if its from another system) to get access to it

The hdd from the laptop may also have some security feature on it or in the BIOS. So like what youre trying to do now, someone cant get access to it. If they remove it and try to get into it

Thanks for the help. OK, glad to know I can access a 32 bit hard drive on a 64 bit machine. I don't know how to "take ownership" of a hard drive from another computer. I thought I could at least see it in disk management, but disk management could not even see the drive let alone access it... Still stuck.... :-(

mraroid

 

[XaveT]

32bit vs 64bit applies to the OS stored on the drive, not the drive itself. It will make no difference at all for seeing the drive or what's on it.

What happens if you plug in both USB cords that come from the adapter?

If the drive is old, it may indeed need more power.

If the two USB 2 ports don't work, you can always try USB 3 ports. The USB 2 ports only supply 5V at 500 mA. USB 3 will give 5V at 1A, so double the power. It's possible you may need 2x USB 3 for an old drive, but I can't imagine that, coming from a laptop. (Dead-battery city).

It doesn't make sense for the drive to work in the old computer (albeit only for a minute) but then not work at all in an adapter. Is it possible the adapter is bad too?

 

[USAFRet]

Remove as many obstacles as possible.

Take the drive out of that adapter.
Connect it internally in the desktop. Both cables...data and power.
See what happens.

 

[mraroid]

Thank you XaveT and USAFet for the help. My USB 2.0 adapter works with other mechanical hard drives. It still could be bad I guess. When I plug my adapter into my two USB 3.0 ports, the drive will not spin up and the light on the adapter will not light. My USB 3.0 ports work on other items (like a USB 3.0 flash drive). This is the device I am using:

https://www.amazon.com/External-2-5-inch-Aluminum-Enclosure-Laptop/dp/B00EOSBDDM/ref=sr_1_35?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1489449112&sr=1-35&keywords=sata%2Bto%2Busb%2B2.0%2Benclosure&th=1

USAFet - great idea! I have not tried that. I will open up the desktop and add the drive and see what happens. I will report back.

mraroid

 

[XaveT]

Ah... I saw your link to Amazon. Is the drive bigger than 500GB, by chance? Also, is it really Parallel ATA? Those are finicky with a bunch of adapters 🙁

 

[mraroid]

USAFet and all .... I moved the hard drive to my windows 10 computer and installed it internally. I booted the windows 10 computer and I can see the drive and open it up and see the folders. Yea!

But when I try to open some documents, I receive an error message saying that I do not have permission to view the contents of the folder or to open the file.

I suspect Windows 10 has a setting in it to let me view all folders and files? Or am I confusing this with a setting in Windows that let me see Windows hidden files?

The HD btw, is a Samsung St750LM022

Thanks again everyone for the help.

mraroid

 

[XaveT]

I think your adapter might be a little different than the one on amazon you posted (different interfaces). But I'm glad putting it in a computer works!

Here's how you take ownership:
Go to My Computer and Right click the drive, then choose Properties

Go to the Security Tab, then click Advanced at the bottom

At the top, click on Change by Owner

Put your user name (Or "Everyone") in and click OK

Check the suddenly appearing checkbox by the text "Replace Owner on Subcontainers and objects". Then click OK. It will take a few minutes, most likely.

Then you can set permissions like normally, in that same box from 3rd and 5th pictures.