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Post subject: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...  Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:50 pm |
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Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless I format it First.
anyway around this?
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Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:10 pm |
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why wont it read it - do you know - ie ext3 filesystem ?
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Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:14 pm |
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Not really sure, Picks up the hdd but when i try and open it vista just says you must format first..., is it just silly vista? think i'll install XP tbh
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Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:38 pm |
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Is this a disk out of your old PC? Could be corruption, but I'd try it in an XP box first....
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Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:15 pm |
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personally id download knoppix and mount it and see what i could see before letting windows try and "fix" it
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Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless... Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:49 pm |
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if it's a readable NTFS/FAT volume, vista should show it... assuming it's not been encrypted on the previous machine. More likely your drive is fooked 
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