My son's old lappie, an HP Pavillion dv6000 went tits up years ago. So, its time to chuck it out. But before I do that, I tried to get it to boot up again and failed.
So, I've taken the hard drive out and thought I may be able to save some of his data. I got a USB to SATA lead and have plugged this into my lappie.
His hard drive is showing as disc D, 6 gig free out of 85 gig and disc H, 27meg of 1 gig free. Must admit I thought the lappie had more than 86 gig on the HD but there you go!
Now, when I have a looksee in D & H, all I can see are system files. I cant see \ find any pictures, music or other docs I know he has on here.
Why cant I see these, if the HD is nearly full, I cant believe its nearly full of system files and nothing else?
Is there any dark secrets I can use to show any files that arent being displayed ie not hidden system files?
The HD used Win XP, my lappie has Vista on it so would have thought I'd be able to see jpeg, music files and word docs.
So, I've taken the hard drive out and thought I may be able to save some of his data. I got a USB to SATA lead and have plugged this into my lappie.
His hard drive is showing as disc D, 6 gig free out of 85 gig and disc H, 27meg of 1 gig free. Must admit I thought the lappie had more than 86 gig on the HD but there you go!
Now, when I have a looksee in D & H, all I can see are system files. I cant see \ find any pictures, music or other docs I know he has on here.
Why cant I see these, if the HD is nearly full, I cant believe its nearly full of system files and nothing else?
Is there any dark secrets I can use to show any files that arent being displayed ie not hidden system files?
The HD used Win XP, my lappie has Vista on it so would have thought I'd be able to see jpeg, music files and word docs.
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