If you can help me, You will have recovered for me about 100 hours of work.

I had an old laptop - 'LAP1'.  It was an HP Pavilion dv6700.  It died.  Or at least, would not boot up anymore, and it said the 'disk was about to fail'. So I extracted the hard drive, connected it to a hard-drive usb connector - a 'sabrent' - and attempted to access the files via an even older laptop I have - 'LAP2'.  The older laptop (LAP2) is a compaq presario m2000.  But I cannot access the files.  A new drive appears in mycomputer.  And the 'safely remove software' icon shows that a 'FUJITSU MHY2250BH USB Device' is connected.  But when I try to access the drive, it says that it 'isn't formatted' and asks me if I want to.  I said no, but I know that will erase everything on it.

1) So how do I access what is on this drive?  When I did it years ago, I just plugged in the usb, and had access LIKE any other external hard drive.

Also: LAP1 was windows, I believe 7?  Or 6?  And LAP2 is running windows xp.  It is really slow.  Like really slow.  But it is the only computer I have access to as we speak.

2) If I ditched LAP2 for a newer computer, would I maybe have easy access to the LAP1 hard drive?

Thank you in advance!!Nobody?  Did I post in the wrong section or do something else wrong?  I need help here, or I'm really screwed.   Does anyone have any suggestions?No, upou did what you could.
At this point you either give up or pay a tech to do it with special equipment.
Yes, there are some opposites, but you are almost at a dead end already.
Can you stat the old laptop with a 'live' CD?

HTTP://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php


Get an external enclosure for the laptop HDD you want the data from...
The reason you are getting the error message is the laptop is attempting to boot from the other HDD....which will not work properly as it's from a different PC. Quote from: patio on November 08, 2013, 05:43:20 AM

Get an external enclosure for the laptop HDD you want the data from...
The reason you are getting the error message is the laptop is attempting to boot from the other HDD....which will not work properly as it's from a different PC.