HD Compatability Problem

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Last week I rebooted my laptop, and it would not come up said I had errors.
I took it to a local shop here and he comletely copied that HD onto a new HD
whick I brought home to install as a slave drive on my desktop. As soon as I
installed it and tried to look for the data, I could only see 1 folder. WHAT
can I do to recover the data off of that hard Drive? if anything?
 
You have not explained the problem.

It may be that the 'shop' made a disk image of the laptop disk onto a new
IDE drive and that you need the same software to restore it onto another
drive.

Why didn't the 'shop' provide a replacement laptop disk drive and clone the
original across to it and make the laptop work?

What do you want to do with the 'information that was copied' from the old
laptop disk drive. Does it go to the Desktop or do you want to put it onto
the Laptop again?
 
I wanted the HD from the laptop copied onto a HD for my desktop so that I
could access all of the information from my desktop, and only use the desktop
now, I wanted to use it as a 2nd drive. The 'shop' has already tried to
reinstall windows xp onto my laptop HD (after he copied it to another HD for
me) and that is when he found out it had errors on it, so I am getting a new
HD for the laptop.

My concern is I need the info off of one of those HD's and neither of them
say it is there. The guy said that he had to drag and drop files, so it was
not a disk image, he said there were too many errors on it adn it kept
stopping on him, so he had to drag and drop 1 file at a time.

I am trying to figgure out WHAT caused windows XP to lose all the info on
that HD when I tried to slave it as a 2nd HD in my desktop computer, and IF
there is a way to fix it? OR can the data still be recovered from the laptop
HD somehow, after it has already been reformatted?

Thanks for your help!
 
Answer to your last question is, you can't get old data from a reformatted
disk. "Warning - foramtting will erase ALL data on this disk. Continue
(y/n)?" is displayed prior to re-formatting, and it means just that.
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Answer to your question "I am trying to figgure out WHAT caused windows XP
to lose all the info on
that HD when I tried to slave it as a 2nd HD" -
Click to expand...

XP didn't "lose" any data. From your own post, it was originally on a
faulty drive - that's hardware issue, not an OS fault.
Your expert techie "dragged" the files over to another disk - these files
may well have been already corrupt due to disk failure.

And, by dragging and dropping, did he "copy" or "move" those files? If
copied, you have one chance - take the damaged HDD to a specialist data
recovery firm - it'll cost you dear, with no guarantee of success. BUT -
only if copied. If he "dragged and dropped" (MOVED) the files over, then
corrupt or not, they no longer exist on the original drive. Attempted
re-installation of XP on the problem drive further complicates matters.

My guess is that you'll have to bite the bullet, rely on the backups you
(hopefully) made before the disk problem occurred, and write off the disk.
All other data is probably irrecoverable.
 
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