Question Recover data from C drive on an HDD?

[Bongi12345]

How to recover data from a crash hard drive,especially in local disk C drive where the operating system was

My hard drive recently crashed and I took it out of my computer and connected it to another pc as an external hard drive using the sea gate cover and I cannot find the data in local disk C, it is in accessible? but the other partition is, I tried usinf Ease us data recovery but still cannot access my files that were in local disk C, plz help

 

[Lutfij]

You can use TestDisk but your mileage can and will vary.

 

[USAFRet]

How to recover data from a crash hard drive,especially in local disk C drive where the operating system was

My hard drive recently crashed and I took it out of my computer and connected it to another pc as an external hard drive using the sea gate cover and I cannot find the data in local disk C, it is in accessible? but the other partition is, I tried usinf Ease us data recovery but still cannot access my files that were in local disk C, plz help

Depends on how it "crashed".
And depends on how you tried to access.

Give us some specifics, please.

 

[Bongi12345]

You can use TestDisk but your mileage can and will vary.

Okay, I will try but the data is there in local disk c it is just that I cannot open it, it is inaccessible.

 

[Bongi12345]

Depends on how it "crashed".
And depends on how you tried to access.

Give us some specifics, please.

I tried to access it as an external it has two partitions I can access the other partition without the operating system but the one with the operating system cannot access it's files like documents,videos and music.

 

[fzabkar]

Can you show us the Partitions window in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

 

[USAFRet]

I tried to access it as an external it has two partitions I can access the other partition without the operating system but the one with the operating system cannot access it's files like documents,videos and music.

Right.
Those Libraries are permission locked to the other user.
Did it say anything about "You don't have access"?

TakeOwnership.

How to Add “Take Ownership” to the Right-Click Menu in Windows Explorer

Taking ownership of files or folders in Windows is not simple. Both the GUI and command line take too many steps. Why not add a simple context menu command that lets you take ownership of any file or folder?

www.howtogeek.com

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

 

[Bongi12345]

Right.
Those Libraries are permission locked to the other user.
Did it say anything about "You don't have access"?

TakeOwnership.

How to Add “Take Ownership” to the Right-Click Menu in Windows Explorer

Taking ownership of files or folders in Windows is not simple. Both the GUI and command line take too many steps. Why not add a simple context menu command that lets you take ownership of any file or folder?

www.howtogeek.com

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

Yes , it did say no access

Right.
Those Libraries are permission locked to the other user.
Did it say anything about "You don't have access"?

TakeOwnership.

How to Add “Take Ownership” to the Right-Click Menu in Windows Explorer

Taking ownership of files or folders in Windows is not simple. Both the GUI and command line take too many steps. Why not add a simple context menu command that lets you take ownership of any file or folder?

www.howtogeek.com

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3841-add-take-ownership-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

Okay, I understand have to take owmership of the crashed local disk c partition, to access the files

 

[USAFRet]

Yes , it did say no access

Okay, I understand have to take owmership of the crashed local disk c partition, to access the files

It's actually not the whole partition, but that will be on a file per file basis.