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I tried it in a different usb port and no difference. So can anyone help me figure out why my laptop isn’t reading the external drive.

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I was given a link on how to get to disk management which I did then I uploaded a print screen of that dialog box to my website at

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You should see Mass Storage Device.” No mass storage device seen but under device manager > DVD/CD-ROM Drives > MATSHITA DVD RAM UJ-884 USB Device when I right-clicked on it and went to properties on the general tab it says "Location: On USB mass storage device.” Also, when I right click on my pc under Devices and Printers there is an Eject option with an arrow which then shows USB Mass Storage Device - so it's recognizing it somehow I think. TestDisk runs in a command window, so you use the keyboard to navigate, not the mouse. Unzip the downloaded file to your C: drive and open C:\testdisk-6.8\win > double click 'testdiskwin' (the program doesn't have to installed). Is there something else I need to do to make my pc recognize \ find it? From another forum I was told to look under Devices and Printers (not in the control panel but an entry below it on the right pane when you click the orb/start button). I can't access my hard drive Download the Windows version of TestDisk. 3 Unlock the Bitlocker-encrypted USB drive with the recovery key. The USB drive is now unlocked and accessible.

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Double-click on the Bitlocker-encrypted USB drive, type in your password in the text box, and click on Unlock button. I do not see it in windows explorer like when I plug in a thumb drive. 2 Unlock the Bitlocker USB drive with your password. I bought a Vantec 2.5"/3.5"/5.25" SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - Model CB-ISATAU2 and set it up via pg 7 here I now want to recover files from the hard drive via my laptop. It was a Dimension E521 XP Home Edition, [Admin NOTE: Service tag removed per TOU policy, Model # DC8M, Product Key JX4CP-Y6XB7.

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Now you can continue with the Windows install to make your Mac much more versatile.My desktop “died” over a year ago. Once the large files are moved away, Boot Camp should have no problem moving the smaller files itself. After that, you can access the hard drive from File Explorer.

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The demo version will not do the full defrag necessary to move the files to the front, however. Even if you don’t pay for it, the demo is useful for showing you a mapping of where files reside on your drive, giving you an indication of how much you have to move. First, press the Windows key or click the search box on your taskbar and type defragment. You would have to do the full defrag, which requires rebooting. Right-click on the inaccessible hard drive. I do not know of any free programs that would do this, though a paid one that would work is iDefrag ($34.95). You can also check if the problem is due to an encrypted file or not, by following the below mentioned steps.

Defrag: You could also use a defrag utility to move the files towards the front of the drive.

You can use a utility such as Disk Inventory X to determine the largest files on the drive and move those off. Of course, this would require some knowledge of which files are the culprit.

Manually: If you have another hard drive (external or networked computer, for example), you could move the large files off temporarily.

There are a few different ways to do this. My friends powerbook (running Tiger) has a hard drive so fragmented that swap access takes forever (since the swap file becomes fragmented). The solution then, is to move these large files residing at the end of the disk using another method. The most common files causing this problem are large video files.

However, it has a problem moving large files (larger than several hundred megabytes in size) and will time out before succeeding, returning the above error. To do this, it tries to move all of the files currently residing there onto another part of the drive. If I stop it in the middle nothing happens to my partition. Boot Camp tries to create the Windows partition by allocating it a contiguous area at the end of the disk. DVD continues to make the scratching being accessed sound but nothing happens. Surely there is an easier solution? Well, there is.īefore getting into the solution, we must first understand the cause of this problem. When you try to use Boot Camp to create a Windows partition, you come across the following error: “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files could not be moved.” The suggested solution of reformatting the disk and restoring the data will work, but is quite a hassle. You’ve got the Windows install disc ready to go. Youll lose all stored files but the hard drive should be viewable again. If the hard drive is listed in Disk Management but cant be viewed, try formatting the disk. Check that the hard drive is listed here. You’ve cleared out enough space on your hard drive. If your drive wont show up in File Explorer, and it appears as 'Offline' in Disk Management, you can use the following steps to fix the issue: Open Start. Press Windows key + R then type diskmgmt.msc to bring up Disk Management.