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Retrieving Data from old harddrive

Derek K

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Mar 23, 2014
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Hello!

My parents old laptop died a while ago and I have the hard drive. I have hooked up the laptop drive in my desktop with the power and SATA cables. I booted from my standard drive.

Going to computer management from the control panel, the computer recognizes that a new hard drive is plugged in and says it is unallocated. I initialized the drive (not sure if I should have done that...). So right now the computer says that 'disk 0' is online and unallocated.

What should my next step be to get their data off of it?
 

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