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Originally Posted by chrismackey1972
Hey Rob,
Thanks for the response. Yes, the enclosure was through USB. The only other computer that I have that operates SATA hard drives is an HP slimline. I opened it up, but there's no way to add a slave internally. I might have to go to Wal-Mart and buy one of their big desk top computers and slave the hard drive in there.
THat's a good idea about scanning it in there, while I'm in disc management. However, every single time I've commanded the computer to scan the disc, it says it's unreadable and corrupted.
My brother found a disc on the internet for $10. He says it is a disc that forces a computer to boot up. Do you think that would fix this problem?
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Well as long as the HP has an extra SATA connector, you could just attach the cables and let the drive sit on the table next to the HP.
As far as using a boot disc goes, yeah those can solve a lot of problems, depending on which one you use.
Bart's PE boot disc is a popular one.
Boot discs tend to be most helpful when you've created them off of the system the drive is running in though, since specific drivers and such get added to the disc depending on your specific system.
But there's also applications like Partition Magic which might be more suited to what happened on your drive. Partition Magic is very good at fixing partitions.
All is not lost if none of those work though.
As long as the drive is spinning, you can use file recovery software to save your data. Those are tedious, and take a lot of time though.
Best to fix the partition if you can.