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URGENT HELP NEEDED -possible bad hard drive (XP) and windows 7
Hey guys, need some quick help here.
I have a work laptop with a 2.5 HDD with XP installed on it. When I try to boot it up I get the BSOD with "unmountable boot disk" or something like that (0x000000ED)
Anyways before I send this in to our IT guy at work i want to try to get some important files off it.
I just picked up a USB 3.0 external drive enclosure (my home PC is windows 7 USB 3.0). I then connected my 2.5 work laptop drive to this enclosure then plugged into my win7 home machine.
Shouldnt I be able to read and pull some folders files off this drive onto my home machine for backup purposes?
Is there a program that I need to read from this drive (providing its not completely crapped out) because I have an OS on it XP that is? SOmething like some sort of drive explorer or something? Im in a huge panic, so it doesnt help that im not completely thinking straight either...
It my computer, my home machine is seeing the attached drive, but kind of hanging when I try to explore or open up the drive in question....
any quick thoughts or help is HUGELY appreciated.
Thanks in advance!