Once again I'm trying to get my files off of my old laptop HDD using a sata to usb 3 converter and I'm experiencing a world of issues. While it was still installed in my laptop at some point something went wrong and I was no longer able to get into windows. The drive was detected normally, however on every startup I was caught in an infinite boot cycle without ever being able to get into windows.
Now I've got the drive hooked up to my pc via usb and simply trying to interact with it causes windows explorer to become unresponsive, disk management is constantly searching for drives with no results and even youtube videos refuse to play while the drive is plugged in. Literally as soon as i unplug it everything goes back to normal right away.
I've tried to let explorer finish reading the drive before I even click on it but that is taking forever and progress seems to stop around 95% and I have no idea if it's progressing. It's a 1TB hard drive with about 700-800 gigs of stuff on it.
Now I've got the drive hooked up to my pc via usb and simply trying to interact with it causes windows explorer to become unresponsive, disk management is constantly searching for drives with no results and even youtube videos refuse to play while the drive is plugged in. Literally as soon as i unplug it everything goes back to normal right away.
I've tried to let explorer finish reading the drive before I even click on it but that is taking forever and progress seems to stop around 95% and I have no idea if it's progressing. It's a 1TB hard drive with about 700-800 gigs of stuff on it.