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What is the brand of the external enclosure you bought? I'd be very surprised if it was identifying itself as a Toshiba.
I bought a 3.0 / SATA USB adaptor cable. (I've also bought an enclosure, but haven't used that yet)
EkoBuy® USB 3.0 to 2.5 inch SATA III Hard Drive: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
2.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure POSUGEAR USB 3.0 Hard Drive Disk External Caddy Transparent Case Tool Free for 9.5mm SATA HDD and SSD Compatible with Mac OS/Windows: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
A faded icon for a drive indicates it isn't current connected, but has been in the past.
It would seem the usb drive isn't being recognised when you plug it in. Have you plugged in both cables? It may need more power than one cable provides. Does the drive spin when you plug it in?
Try the drive enclosure instead of the cable.
[QUOTE=Bree;1383240]A faded icon for a drive indicates it isn't current connected, but has been in the past.
It would seem the usb drive isn't being recognised when you plug it in. Have you plugged in both cables? It may need more power than one cable provides. Does the drive spin when you plug it in?
Plugged in detected now - 'unallocated' in Disk Management.
Looks like you are well on the way now. That System partition is for booting from, the OS partition would be the original C: drive (with the Users folders) and the Data partition may also contain files you want.
It may even be possible to recover all the partitions and make the drive bootable again in the original PC, but for that we'd need advice from a 'data recovery' expert. We've reached the limits of the help I can give. Let's see who else can help from here on...
Bree, like I said your Awesome!! I'll wait and do some further research.
I have been following this thread from the beginning. Bree had done a lot of excellent exploratory work. Kudos.
Active at Partition Recoery may not be free - I donno, check it.
Instead you can try the old version of MiniTool Partition Wizard Free 9.1. Download from here
http://www.filehorse.com/download-pa.../old-versions/
( In later versions Partition Recovery is not free)
Post a screenshot of how your drive looks like in it - the very first screen when you launch PW.
Run Partition Recovery Wizard > Quick Scan . Post a screenshot of the Partitions-found Window. After the screenshot cancel and close PW. Let me examine the screenshot and then we will see what can be done. That tom morning that is 10 hours from now for me.
It will. At the moment I am not sure whether we will go ahead with Partition Recovery or we will go ahead with Data recovery using TestDisk. Examining your drive with PW is the first step. We shall evolve the strategy as we proceed.I am hitting the sack now.