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.
You can use this freeware to read contents of linux filesystems on windows: https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
But from the lock up I suspect it has a hardware failure. Check out its state with a SMART reader: gsmartcontrol or hdsentinel