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boobieman

11-22-2009, 04:11 PM

Hello,
Wonder if anyone could help me. My wife's Laptop went dead. So I bought a Laptop Hard Drive USB External Enclosure/Case. I got the laptop hard drive out and hooked it up to my desk top computer. The hard drive shows up in the "my computer" of the desktop computer but I get a can not access the "G: drive", which is the lap top hard drive. Any way I can get access to the external drive? I just want to copy a few files from the external to my internal hard drive.

The lap top hard drive has XP home on it.
The desk top computer is also using XP home.

Any info anyone can provide me would be great. Any more info needed to help you help me with my problem please let me know.

SSSEYAYAA

Reynolds

11-22-2009, 04:17 PM

Did you try rebooting with it plugged in?

boobieman

11-22-2009, 06:04 PM

No have not tried that..also got this article from another site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

..but the problem is I can't even get access to the files to take ownership.

SEEAYYAA

Tenbatsuzen

11-22-2009, 06:42 PM

Is the laptop drive set to slave or cable select?

Was there any software with the USB enclosure you had to install?

Usually with a USB port, it recognizes it automatically.

Devo37

11-22-2009, 07:22 PM

what kind of error message do you get when you try to open it?

boobieman

11-22-2009, 09:01 PM

Did you try rebooting with it plugged in?

Genius...pure genius. Shut down my computer and then connected the case, then reboot, it ran the XP blue screen, saying I had a few errors and a bad cluster. It corrected what it could but then the computer started up. The external drive was in "my computer", I got access to the files I wanted. Thank you.

I think I have to go back and read computers for Dummies..I am getting lazy.

Thanks again.

SEEYAYYASSA

K.C.

11-23-2009, 03:57 AM

boobieman

11-23-2009, 09:12 AM

Well, if Comcast customer service has taught me anything:

1) "Turn yo' box on an' off."
2) "Unplug yo' box an' plug it back in."
3) "We'll send a tech...please be available during all daylight hours between November 23rd and December 14th."

Such top notch advice works for all tech needs.

You forgot the one step:
"Is your box plugged in"

I always think it is something special or something more into it, when it is just a simple thing.

Thanks again for everyone's help.

SSSEYAYAYAA