Hey all,
Hope someone can answer my question. Recently, the hard drive in my Dell Latitude Laptop crashed. I got the typical blue screen of death, but I am not sure of what specific error caused my it to crash. In any event, my laptop is under warranty and I have since received a new one. This is not the first time this has happened, and I have a HD to USB adapter. The last time this happened on an older computer I simply plugged in my adapter with the HD, hooked up and my computer recognized it much like an external drive. I was able to access my files via windows explorer just fine. However, when I plug in the adapter now, my explorer displays 2 drives, a local disk (E:) and a recovery disk (D:). When I click on the local disk I get an error message saying the "parameters are not correct" and clicking on the recovery disk, all it displays is an empty folder named "recovery" and a simple notepad file with some sort of file path.
I should add that it is a seagate 320 GB hard drive. I have tried to access these files on several computers and I am getting a similar error on this. The hard drive is not making any clicks or other unusual noises. Just for kicks, I tried the adapter on another hard drive and it opened just fine so the adapter is working. I have some very important work docs that I would like to get off of here. Anyone have a possible solution I can use?