I'm trying to put my some pictures and songs I saved on an external hard drive onto my new laptop, but I get a recovery partition warning?

I believe your computer is set up so: C:/ is your main drive D:/ is your recovery partition (should be very small) Your new external drive should show up with a higher letter. So, hypothetically, E:/ might be your CD/DVD drive F:/ could be your new external hard disk drive So my suspicion is that your new computer is not seeing the new drive.

There's a lot of good advice here. If none of these work for you, download ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download Ubuntu 9.04. You will get an . ISO file that you should burn to a regular CDR or CDRW (not a DVD).

A new computer today should just let you double-click or right-clkick he file and say "Burn disc from Image" or something like that. Boot from this CDROM.It will load Ubuntu Linux (but not install on your computer). After it's loaded, you should see an icon for your laptops hard drive right there on the desktop.

If you plug in the external hard drive after the system is loaded, you should see another icon show up for that drive. You should be able to drag an drop folders from the external to the other drive. This might not help you use your external drive in Windows, but it might help you get your wedding photos back and copy those to the new laptop.

The first step to seeing if your Drive is attached to your Computer is under device manager. You can drill down through the USB devices to find your external drive and make sure the proper drivers are installed. After that using disk management as detailed in my source will help you map a drive letter.

If that doesn't work, try hooking the external drive up to a friend's PC to see if it shows up there and has your Data this may help you determine if the Hard Drive is bad or you're just having difficulty getting the right drivers for it, or other issues with your machine.

You need to check two things: Device Manager and Disk Management. The quickest way to check both of these is to right click on "My Computer" and click "Manage". If there is nothing in Device Manager with either a red X or a yellow?

Next to it, look under the USB category for anything called "USB Mass Storage Device". Next check disk management. D:\ on this new computer is set by the manufacturer as a recovery partition.It sounds like from your experience that D:\ was your external USB drive on your old computer and some finicky USB storage devices will stubbornly keep the same drive letter even across computers.

If this is the case, you should see something in Disk Management that looks like your external hard drive (probably Disk 1, but the easiest way to tell is to match the drive size). If you see the drive in Disk Management, right click on it and click on Change Drive Letter and Paths. Choose a new drive letter for it.

Typically the drive letters that are already taken will not be available, but you might want to double check. If it's there and it allows you to change the drive letter to something that isn't already taken, then you should be in the clear. If it's not showing up at all either in Device Manager or Disk Management, then stick the drive in the freezer (no I'm not kidding).

A good overnight freeze has saved many failed hard drives for me. If it works but then disappears again after you copied some data, stick in in there again. You can't hurt a hard drive by freezing it, but I usually wrap mine in a paper towel or a plastic bag to keep it from getting condensation on it.

I would recommend trying GetDataBack to do a recovery on the drive. You can find the software here: runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm.

D:\ is not your external hard drive, it is a recovery partition provided by your manufacturer. You didn't say what OS you were running (I assume it's a new computer and that you are running Vista). Does your computer make a sound when the drive is plugged in or removed?

If not, then your computer is not detecting your external hard drive. Make sure it has power and that you are plugging it correctly. Also, if you aren't sure, check to make sure the port on your computer that you are plugging it into is working.

If it is a brand new computer, it could have a defect. If it does make a sound, then check disk management. The external hard drive should be listed as a physical device and it should have at least one partition mounted with a drive letter assigned.

Follow the instructions here to do this: windowsreference.com/windows-vista/how-t... (I don't have Vista so I can't give you personal instructions). If it is listed but no partition is mounted, right click on it and select Mount Partition. If it does not show up in disk management, then check the device manager.

Open it up using the instructions here: windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/... Check to see that your external hard drive is listed and not malfunctioning. If it is listed and has an exclamation point icon by it, it is malfunctioning and you need to take further steps to get it to work. Double click on it to bring up its properties and error code.

Use that to figure out what's wrong. Reply if you need more help and good luck!

Hmm the recovery partition is usually provided by the manufacturer of the machine if ever you needed to restore your system. You generally wouldn't be writing files there. If you did, it could prevent you from restoring the machine.

Are there any other drive letters showing up in My Computer?

Put windows Cd and go for windows repair Then try I think this should work. Note: use only original window for this.

This is why I don't do Windows. Plug your drive into a Mac, or better yet, head the the Apple Store and ask a Genius to do it for you!

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