need help with data transfer via SATA to USB

Amaterasu · 18 Nov 2013

i'm going abroad for a while with my laptop. i can't take my desktop pc, but i can take the hard drive which has 1.5 TB of data on it. my laptop top hard drive is only 750GB big so i bought a USB 3.0 to SATA cable so that i can you my hard drive when i'm away i plug my hard drive into my laptop it is on and you can hear it and in the bottom corner on my laptop screen it said installed new drive software but my hard drive is not show up on my laptop i have taken some picture as you can see below so how do i get it to show up on my laptop please help me i have 1 month untill i leave thanks jake

TVeblen · 18 Nov 2013

With the drive connected, if you go to Disk Management, does it show up there?
Start > type: "Computer Management" in the search box > Disk Management

Does this drive contain an operating system?

BTW: where did you get that hard drive case? That's great! I want one.

Amaterasu · 19 Nov 2013

TVeblen said:

With the drive connected, if you go to Disk Management, does it show up there?
Start > type: "Computer Management" in the search box > Disk Management

Does this drive contain an operating system?

BTW: where did you get that hard drive case? That's great! I want one.

hi there sorry for the late reply

yes it does should up there

yes my laptop and the hard drive have windows 7 ultimate

got the case off ebay 5 colours to choose from it think it was like £2 i had a look in my ebay history to see if i could find it but i couldn't find it sorry

whs · 19 Nov 2013

From my experience it is not a good idea to open a system drive from another PC. All kinds of things can happen with the permissions. You also take a great risk transporting this drive. One knock on it and you get a headcrash and you lose your system.

I would recommend to buy another drive just for the data and copy that on the original system where the drive belongs. If it is not too much data you may even get away with a big USB stick. Last 32GB stick I bought was $22.

They also sold refurbished 60GB SSDs for $39. Those risk nothing during transport. Maybe there are similar options in the UK.

Amaterasu · 19 Nov 2013

whs said:

From my experience it is not a good idea to open a system drive from another PC. All kinds of things can happen with the permissions. You also take a great risk transporting this drive. One knock on it and you get a headcrash and you lose your system.

I would recommend to buy another drive just for the data and copy that on the original system where the drive belongs. If it is not too much data you may even get away with a big USB stick. Last 32GB stick I bought was $22.

They also sold refurbished 60GB SSDs for $39. Those risk nothing during transport. Maybe there are similar options in the UK.

i have 1.5 TB of data i don't think it will fit on a memory stick and i have a 32 GB memory stick

whs · 19 Nov 2013

And I guess you have to carry 1.5TB of data around.

TVeblen · 20 Nov 2013

First, your drive is connected and recognized by Windows. That is good.

Check in Disk Management to see that the drive has a drive letter. If it does not, try and give it one.

If that drive just has one big partition (C) and that partition contains an operating system then it is probably flagged ACTIVE at the hardware level.
Window will sometimes ignore partitions that are marked ACTIVE while running another operating system.

If you post a screenshot of your Disk Management window with that drive connected - expanded so we can read everything - we may be able to see what is going on in an instant.

Amaterasu · 20 Nov 2013

TVeblen said:

First, your drive is connected and recognized by Windows. That is good.

Check in Disk Management to see that the drive has a drive letter. If it does not, try and give it one.

If that drive just has one big partition (C) and that partition contains an operating system then it is probably flagged ACTIVE at the hardware level.
Window will sometimes ignore partitions that are marked ACTIVE while running another operating system.

If you post a screenshot of your Disk Management window with that drive connected - expanded so we can read everything - we may be able to see what is going on in an instant.

hi there i think i was looking in the wrong place this is the first time i have tried to do this so i'm a beginner at this stuff here are the picture you asked for

whs · 20 Nov 2013

Just for your information - this is only a 750GB disk and the amount of data (without the OS) on it is appr. 390GB (in decimal).

Amaterasu · 20 Nov 2013

that was my laptop not my desktop hard drive