Windows 10: Laptop acts like there is no data on disk after repluging.

This all is happening on a Dell Inspirion 5502, windows 10, BIOS Version 1.28.0, 11th Gen IntelR CoreTM i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB OM3PDP3-AD NVMe KDI drive, let me know if you need anything more specific, don't know what is important here hardware-wise. I was sent do Dell to get repaired keyboard replacement and they told me if i wanted an easy way to avoid a format of my data i could just take out the disk before sending the device to them, so that's what i did. Now it has come back and i have reinstalled the disk. When i tried turning the laptop on, i loaded for a while and

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Using HDMI cables to connect two laptops for the purpose of copying files

Hi Faye985,

I just want to clarify what kind of laptop do you have and in what operating system?

The best thing for me if you can't really see anything from the screen and your laptop acts dead already, you can extract the Hard Drive and buy an Enclosure for it in order for you to use it as an External Drive (just like a USB Flash disk but larger)

For more suggestions, you can visit this link and check if these steps can help you out.

https://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Data-from-the-H...

( Please take note of your Operating System (Windows or Mac) before proceeding to the steps listed)

If these helped you, I'll be glad to have your feedback.

Cheers! Have a good day!

 

Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

ACT Pro 2013 will not open in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

The most likely causes on a standalone are a damaged or invalid .pad file or SQL is not running, or is damaged.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if the issue persists.

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    Click your Windows Start button, choose Run and type in actdiag.
    

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    When ACT! Diagnostics comes up, click Databases, the Database List.
    

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    Locate your database in the list, right-click on it and select Detach. Make sure you know the filepath to your database before detaching it.
    

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    When the database has been detached, open My Computer (or Windows Explorer) and browse to the location of your database.
    

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    Locate the .PAD file for your database [database name].pad and delete it.
    

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    Reopen ACT!...you will get a message that the last database opened cannot found, then will be taken to the Open Database dialog box.
    

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    At the bottom of this box, change the Files of Type to .adf, browse to the location of your database and double-click on the .adf file for your database.
    

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    You will get a message that ACT! will verify your database, click OK and ACT will reattach your database to SQL and create a new .pad file.
    
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    Hope this helps.