I just had what I think was a power supply failure on my HP desktop running Win 8.1.
My issue is, while the machine is away getting fixed, I need to be able to read content from the HDD, to use my HP Laptop to do work in the meantime.
I have a USB bridge that I often use to hook up to SATA drives, to read/write, etc. But for this disk, when I connect it to the interface, and plug it into the Win 7 laptop USB, it shows up as a RAW drive, Keeps wanting me to format it.
I know this probably has to do with the encryption "feature" under UEFI, and Secure Boot, but I'm getting out of my depth with the nuances of 8.1.
I know it should be possible to read this disk, given the proper software, etc. But how do I do it? I really need access to some of this data, and read-only access would be fine with me, if that is all I can get.
I did create a "Recovery Hard Disk" for that machine on another drive, so I have that, but until I get the machine back, that doesn't seem to do me any good. Or will it? How?
Anyone have any ideas? Any suggestions? This is getting to be a major headache...
Thanks,
Ron