Recover data files from old hard drive using enclosure

[RCoburn]

I am trying to salvage files from my old hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200 gb) . The computer was a HP Pavillion, hard drive was running Windows XP 32bit. I had a start up file corruption and was unable to get the computer working again. I do NOT think there was a hard drive failure.

Bought a new computer. HP Envy 700-214, Windows 8.1 64 bit.

I installed the old Seagate drive into a USB HDD enclosure. I see the drive showinmg up as HP_Recovery:F and Local Disk:G.
I can access Recover:F but G which WAS my old C is not accessible. If fact it locks my computer up every time I try to access. I am unable to even seen properties.

Is the problem a master/slave jumper issue?

I thought I had all date backed up on an external but I did not. Really need these files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, RCoburn

 

[popatim]

Whats the model# of the Barracuda? I thought all the 7200.7's were sata so a master/slave jumper wouldn't even be present.

 

[RCoburn]

Popatim: Yes, you are correct....the drive is a SATA and no jumpers needed. The Seagate Barracuda is model # ST 3200822AS.
Thank you, RCoburn

 

[fzabkar]

The 7200.7 series came in SATA and PATA formats.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/cuda7200pm.pdf

 

[RCoburn]

The 7200.7 series came in SATA and PATA formats.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/cuda7200pm.pdf

I checked the pins and none were jumpered. Sorry for my ignorance. I only know enough about computers to be dangerous. From the diagram in the text from the link you posted, it showed slave setting to be no jumpers. Is that correct for using in a HDD external enclosure?
Odd that it is seeing the Recover Disk but not the main....

Thank you, RCoburn

 

[trekzone]

I can access Recover:F but G which WAS my old C is not accessible. If fact it locks my computer up every time I try to access. I am unable to even seen properties.
Is the problem a master/slave jumper issue?

If you can access the other partition of the drive, then I think it's not a jumper issue. It's probably a corrupt file system or some bad sectors on the drive that prevents you from accessing the other partition.

 

[RCoburn]

I can access Recover:F but G which WAS my old C is not accessible. If fact it locks my computer up every time I try to access. I am unable to even seen properties.
Is the problem a master/slave jumper issue?

If you can access the other partition of the drive, then I think it's not a jumper issue. It's probably a corrupt file system or some bad sectors on the drive that prevents you from accessing the other partition.

Is there any program to access and maybe repair? I would really like to retrieve some of the data.

 

[trekzone]

Is there any program to access and maybe repair? I would really like to retrieve some of the data.

You can try Testdisk or Photorec.

 

[RCoburn]

Is there any program to access and maybe repair? I would really like to retrieve some of the data.

You can try Testdisk or Photorec.

In the enclosure, my old C drive was inaccessible. I downloaded Seatools for Windows and did a scan for disk drives on my computer. Somehow after this, the drive was accessible but I could not pull files off. I had already downloaded Stellar Phoenix and I'm currently able to pull data off the disk with that program.

A huge sincerely thanks to all for your help!
RCoburn