I had a Dell laptop, Inspiron E1505 running Vista, that died on me a few months ago, when I power it on I get “Error Code 0146†and windows would not load. I tried to boot it off the boot disk but had no luck. I just want to recover my files if I can; pictures, word docs, ect.
I removed the laptop hard drive and popped open my eMachine desktop, I plugged the hard drive into the desktops power supply and the mother board and fired it up. The computer is reading the old laptop drive (as disk E and a 9 GB partition of recovery disk as drive F) But when I try to open or explore drive E it says the drive cannot be opened because it is not formatted, I also can't run scandisk because the drive is not formatted. Drive E does not show any properties; size, space used, space free, ect. It let me do a disk defrag but I'm not sure that's actually doing anything. Drive F shows 5 GB used and has folders in it but none of my personal files are there.
Is there any way I can access the files on the old laptop drive or are they truly gone for good?
I removed the laptop hard drive and popped open my eMachine desktop, I plugged the hard drive into the desktops power supply and the mother board and fired it up. The computer is reading the old laptop drive (as disk E and a 9 GB partition of recovery disk as drive F) But when I try to open or explore drive E it says the drive cannot be opened because it is not formatted, I also can't run scandisk because the drive is not formatted. Drive E does not show any properties; size, space used, space free, ect. It let me do a disk defrag but I'm not sure that's actually doing anything. Drive F shows 5 GB used and has folders in it but none of my personal files are there.
Is there any way I can access the files on the old laptop drive or are they truly gone for good?