[SOLVED] Trying to access an old laptop HDD

[keldonlighthand]

I'm trying to access the data on an old laptop drive. I have have it in an external USB housing.
In disk management it shows up as status invalid. looking at properties its type is dynamic and is a MBR partition.

I have option to convert to Basic type but will lose all data.

So really I want to be able to read the disk without losing the data.

Is this possible?

 

[Ralston18]

No answer per se but it may prove helpful if you post the make and model drive.

And include make and model information for the original host laptop.

 

[popatim]

If the Usb housing is compatible with drives larger then 2TB then it may be incompatible with the 512byte sector format of this old drive. new drives (& enclosures) use 4k byte sectors (some drives do 512b emulation)
So you may actually need to mount the drive internally to get the data off.