I bought an adapter to retrieve old files from ancient hard drives and I didn’t save the stuff from one I had looked at. Now though when I plug it in it will only read as an android file system? It has 2 disk images now, one is labeled Presario D: which shows up as an android backup or something but all folders are empty. The other is Local Disk E: and if I click it it literally just locks up my file explorer to the point I have to restart the PC.

Any thoughts or ideas?

I may have plugged it into an android phone at some point? Not sure though.

  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Is that sort of like setting up a virtual machine? All I have at the moment is my work laptop which is a Windows pc. If it is I can Google it and figure it out from there but that seems like a good idea.

    The data was definitely there a couple of months ago when I first looked at it and now my uncle who went on a hike with me years ago to the summit of Mount Rose wants the video because while we were there the migration of the monarchs flew through and it was super amazing and now I can’t get the damn video!

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, basically you get (say, Ubuntu) and write it to a flash drive, then you boot off of the flash drive and use it as a linux box for the time it’s up. When you power down, remove the flash dirve, and reboot, it’s a Windows box again.

      Not sure if your work has safeguards against that - it would be standard practice but some places still allow it.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      You could try going old school and seeing if you can see the files with command prompt, first in Windows, then by rebooting to prompt if that fails.

      You can then probably move files with the commands.