Lost contact with non booth HDD

[Per Wollert Johansen]

Having cloned a new SSD , but then reinnstalled W10Pro on the newly cloned SSD I was able to booth fine. But when I connected my HDD the PC would not booth. The booth priority list was OK, and I could see that the HDD was recognized. As I need the documents on said HDD I must get them back. Any advise please?

 

[popatim]

Install the HDD into a usb dock or enclosure and attach the drive that way after the system has booted up.
If you can set the sata port that the HDD will be on to Hot Swappable in the bios, then you can do this inside the pc (connect the cables after the pc is booted up) but if you 'goof' and short things out it may cost you the entire system.

Another, probably better method, would be to boot from the HDD (SSD disconnected) and copy files your your backup device. Reboot with the SSD and copy them back in. After all, any documents actually important enough to go thru all this are important enough to have backed up.

 

[Per Wollert Johansen]

Thank you for your suggestions. The HDD is not bootable. I bought a sata-usb dock and attached the HDD in question. I saw it in the file explorer, but could not reach it. Got a fatal error message. I then used a recovery program that took 16 hours to do a deep scan of the 1Tb capacity HDD. Then I was able to recover files. Since I had a free program it was limited to recover only 1 Gb. I bought the Pro version, but had to rescan from the beginning, but now I will be able to recover the complete HDD.

 

[popatim]

Awesome news! Thanks for he Update!