Problem with external hard drive

Hi there i'm wondering if anyone can help me? basically my hard drive on
my old pc stopped working so i bought a hard drive enclosure to try and
turn it into an external and salvage my files, however when i connect
this to my laptop it is recognised as 2 seperate hard drives, one with a
15gb size and the other 5.99gb. The bigger one is completely empty while
the other just contains some system files. The hard drive is actually
160gb in size so i have no idea what is wrong, can anyone shed any light
on this please?? (The hard drive ran xp while my laptop runs vista is
this makes a difference?)

Thanks Paul.


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Paulcney

 

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> Hi there i'm wondering if anyone can help me? basically my hard drive on
> my old pc stopped working so i bought a hard drive enclosure to try and
> turn it into an external and salvage my files, however when i connect
> this to my laptop it is recognised as 2 seperate hard drives, one with a
> 15gb size and the other 5.99gb. The bigger one is completely empty while
> the other just contains some system files. The hard drive is actually
> 160gb in size so i have no idea what is wrong, can anyone shed any light
> on this please?? (The hard drive ran xp while my laptop runs vista is
> this makes a difference?)
>
> Thanks Paul.
>
>
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> Paulcney<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->



You did say, after all, that the drive was defective!

If it fails in the computer why would you think that you would not see the
result of that failure when connected externally?

Restore your data from the backups I am sure you have made.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience & Security

 

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:38:30 -0500, Paulcney wrote:
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> Hi there i'm wondering if anyone can help me? basically my hard drive on
> my old pc stopped working so i bought a hard drive enclosure to try and
> turn it into an external and salvage my files, however when i connect
> this to my laptop it is recognised as 2 seperate hard drives, one with a
> 15gb size and the other 5.99gb. The bigger one is completely empty while
> the other just contains some system files. The hard drive is actually
> 160gb in size so i have no idea what is wrong, can anyone shed any light
> on this please?? (The hard drive ran xp while my laptop runs vista is
> this makes a difference?)
>
> Thanks Paul.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I suspect that the smaller partition is the infamous restore partition that
manufacturers provide these days in lieu of a system CD.

The emptiness of the other drive might be, as Richard Urban said, as
symptom of the failure, sadly.

There is drive recovery software available for a price. Just don't restore
the drive to itself, since you'd be writing on what you're trying to
read...And there's no assurance it would recover your drive :-(

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