Whilst I am waiting for a CMOS battery for my Toshiba C70D laptop to see if it helps with my booting problem (see other thread) I thought I'd remove the hard drive from it and see if I could just get the data off it and put it on my desktop PC. My PC is quite old, older than my laptop and only has USB2 ports and I'm not overly techy. I just got a USB 2 Docking Station and put in my laptop HDD. Win 10 can see it on my PC, Drive F as a local disk. But when I try open it, it takes forever and eventually says I need to format it. Does this mean the laptop HDD is screwed? I can hear it working in the docking station. Would it help if I tried to boot my PC using Ubuntu (I think I have done this before to rescue my PC a while back) and see if I can access anything that way? Before Some of the laptop is backed up but there's a couple of important things on there done recently I'd really like to try get back...
Any help gratefully appreciated, thank you.
Any help gratefully appreciated, thank you.