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Maybe wrong place to ask but...I need help with an old hard drive (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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[–] 2 points 9 months 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.

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