Re: FN-FORUM: Recovering data from a WinXP laptop HDD

date posted 8th January 2007 15:04

On Monday 08 January 2007 14:01, David Nye wrote:
> I am trying to recover some data from a WinXP laptop HDD. I do not
> have a working compatible laptop to stick it in, so I got hold of a
> USB IDE adaptor. When connected the hard drive seems to spin up fine,
> and the USB device is detected OK, but the host Windows system does
> not seem to be able "read" it; at this point it sounds like the drive
> keeps "resetting".
>
> If the drive is working, bearing in mind it is a WinXP boot drive,
> should another WinXP system be able to access it in this way, or do I
> need to use some special software?
>

You could use a knoppix cd and boot from that. It uses a different driver to
look at the filesystem which will be more (or less) reliable at getting the
data off the harddrive, if the filesystem is the problem. It will recognise
usb flash drives and ethernet automatically (if they are working) giving
multiple routes to transfer the data (since the cd drive is being used).

Regards

Richard


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