Windows 10: Trying to recover an old hard drive

Discus and support Trying to recover an old hard drive in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Stuck in a bit of a bind. I have an old hard-drive on windows 7, but trying to get it back up and running. My laptop gives me a boot error, so I'm... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Arrogantyak, Jan 27, 2021.

  1. Trying to recover an old hard drive


    Stuck in a bit of a bind. I have an old hard-drive on windows 7, but trying to get it back up and running.

    My laptop gives me a boot error, so I'm trying to install windows 10, but keep the current partitions for retaining files.


    When installing from USB, it gets stuck on copying files 0%.

    Is there any hope for me, or is it better off getting data recovery experts involved?

    :)
     
    Arrogantyak, Jan 27, 2021
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  2. db2366 Win User

    How to recover data from an old laptop hard drive

    I have a 2008 apple hard drive from an old macbook. I am trying to recover the files with my new laptop (windows 10), however the hard drive seems to be password protected. I can open the hard drive but I cannot access the folders within the ''Users''
    folder. Any suggestions?
     
    db2366, Jan 27, 2021
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  3. Need some help. Old HDD. New laptop.

    Yes, that would be a favorable solution if possible. But it requires what I said as a first step. Once he gets booted into the OS, then he can either use it as is or try to recover the product key. I'm not saying he couldn't do what you said, I was replying to another post that suggested simply copy/pasting documents from the old hard drive.
     
    Papahyooie, Jan 27, 2021
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