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| Thread ID: 103074 | 2009-09-11 11:22:00 | Accessing a XP Home HDD from another computer | Nomad (952) | Press F1 |
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| 809028 | 2009-09-11 11:22:00 | Hi, laptop is dead, salvage the HDD due to it being XP Home there are some restrictions . I have this webpage for reference: . microsoft . com/?kbid=308421" target="_blank">support . microsoft . com Now, I wanna make sure that the drive still works before I go out and buy an enclosure or he does . Is it possible to take it out and stick it into my laptop and see if it boots? Then how is it possible to extract the files off that? I ask because the laptop will only have a place for one HDD . I won't be having my own windows installed, the only HDD installed will be his HDD waiting to be salvaged or would I need to put that HDD in a enclosure and run it external and use my own HDD running windows? By the way does it work if I have Windows 2000 trying o get the data off a foreign XP Home HDD? Thanks . |
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| 809029 | 2009-09-11 11:33:00 | It'll probably crash because it'll detect that the hardware isnt there. Connect it to a desktop and check it out | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 809030 | 2009-09-11 11:39:00 | You would be better off to slave the laptop HDD to a working PC, or putting the drive in an enclosure, attach by USB and extracting data to another PC. OR attaching the laptop HDD to a working PC as the main Drive, boot from a Linux Live CD / Extract data to another PC over a LAN, or to a external drive. Attaching the Drive to a working Laptop would work IF the hard ware is identical , or close enough - BUT you can sometimes run the (slim) risk of damaging the working laptop - ending up with two duds. 2000 may work OK extracting data - as long as the file system on the 2000 is formatted to NTFS. NTFS will see NTFS & FAT32. FAT32 wont read NTFS. |
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| 809031 | 2009-09-12 04:32:00 | Piece of cake it was NTFS but it didn't require any workarounds..... I put in an enclosure for him and it just worked. Glad that all the files can be retrieved. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 809032 | 2009-09-12 08:23:00 | Niccccce when it work out good.:thumbs: | wainuitech (129) | ||
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