When my laptop broke down I transfered the hard drive into the enclosure thinking I would be able to get the data, but my new laptop wouldn't recognise the hard drive. I thought maybe it was because there was 2 platforms or something. But my friends laptop broke down and I put his hard drive into the enclosure and it worked! it opened up as another drive and he was able to retrieve all his data.
the only difference that I can think off is in my hard drive I used a password to access my account; my friend never had a password.Any ideas on how to get my hard drive to open?
Will I have to boot it from the external drive at the beginning so I can sign in and remove the password?
2007-02-07 16:14:38 · 2 answers · asked by Bob Bob 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
See if perhaps your hard drive is configured as a Master drive; it is possible the old and new drives are both configured as Master and therefore the one in the laptop is dominant.
I don't know about laptop drives, but in regular PC drives, there is a jumper setting to make it a Master or a Slave. Check you drive for the jumpers.
2007-02-07 16:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by InspectorBudget 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-03 21:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by lemmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋