Hi all,
A cousin of mine looks to have infected their laptop with a virus ( won't boot into windows ). I have taken the HDD from them, plugged into an external caddy into my spare laptop to see if I can retrieve the data ( or at least diagnose the issue more confidently ). My laptop does not recognise the HDD in disk management but I can see it in the BIOS and boot from it, replicating the error. I assumed it wasn't recognised due to insufficient power as the caddy is USB powered.
Long story short. Is it worth trying to remedy or just wipe the HDD? Its a Windows 7 home build.
Thanks in advance.
A cousin of mine looks to have infected their laptop with a virus ( won't boot into windows ). I have taken the HDD from them, plugged into an external caddy into my spare laptop to see if I can retrieve the data ( or at least diagnose the issue more confidently ). My laptop does not recognise the HDD in disk management but I can see it in the BIOS and boot from it, replicating the error. I assumed it wasn't recognised due to insufficient power as the caddy is USB powered.
Long story short. Is it worth trying to remedy or just wipe the HDD? Its a Windows 7 home build.
Thanks in advance.
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