Laptop HDD recovery

[vladiator]

Hi all

I had a HP laptop which stopped working about three years ago. Today I finally decided to see whether I can salvage the info from its HDD. So I removed the HDD, put it into an external SATA HDD case and connected it to my PC via USB.

My desktop recognises the HDD, but the only file I can see is a RECOVERY folder. When I check the HDD's properties, I can see, however, that 1.5GB out of the disk's 5GB of storage space is used. So I suspect, there maybe some hidden files somewhere.

Is there any easy way to see what might be there?

Thanks.

 

[das_stig]

Your not supposed to see the files in a recovery folder, it is used to put the system back to factory defaults aka out of the box setup.

 

[vladiator]

Hi das_stig

Unfortunately, I cannot see any files on my HDD at all, apart from the recovery folder. This is even though the properties say that the HDD is half-full...

 

[das_stig]

Have you put the disk online through disk manager ?

 

[popatim]

please post a pic of the disk management screen.