Hello everyone. I am not much of a tech guru at all, so I will do my best to give the situation.
My old laptop died (it seems like the Motherboard got fried, RIP for a good six years). It seems the HD is/was still working so I got it off the laptop and bought an HD enclosure for it. This HD enclosure is SATA III and therefore should be backwards compatible for SATA I and II (my old laptop's HD is a Seagate SATA).
Anyways, I assembled the HD enclosure, plugged it in, all of course with the intention of getting everything off the HD. It is a 500 gb drive, with only about 30 gb of space remaining. I learned that you have to change permissions in order to access (most of?) the files on the users folder. So I tried doing that, but it was very slow. I had to cancel the process because it took several hours to do maybe a few hundred or thousand files. I kept getting disclaimers every few minutes as well.
Now when I plug in the HD, my current laptop only recognizes it as a "local disk." When I try to even right click the properties, it is even slower than ever. So did my old laptop HD just die on me at the worst time?
My old laptop died (it seems like the Motherboard got fried, RIP for a good six years). It seems the HD is/was still working so I got it off the laptop and bought an HD enclosure for it. This HD enclosure is SATA III and therefore should be backwards compatible for SATA I and II (my old laptop's HD is a Seagate SATA).
Anyways, I assembled the HD enclosure, plugged it in, all of course with the intention of getting everything off the HD. It is a 500 gb drive, with only about 30 gb of space remaining. I learned that you have to change permissions in order to access (most of?) the files on the users folder. So I tried doing that, but it was very slow. I had to cancel the process because it took several hours to do maybe a few hundred or thousand files. I kept getting disclaimers every few minutes as well.
Now when I plug in the HD, my current laptop only recognizes it as a "local disk." When I try to even right click the properties, it is even slower than ever. So did my old laptop HD just die on me at the worst time?