# Need some HDD help, Singh maybe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 29, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-some-hdd-help-singh-maybe/246450 "2009-08-29T18:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-some-hdd-help-singh-maybe/246450/3 "2009-08-29T19:47:57Z")
> [@FF: 10 Gallon fish tank and extras](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ff-10-gallon-fish-tank-and-extras/22240/6): > > I have a 2.5 HDD from an old laptop, that I need the data off of. I have it hooked to my sata/ide to usb adapter. As soon as I hook it to my computer, it says driver installed. Ok, fine, but if I open explorer it dosent show the drive, and then dosent respond, unless I uplug the drive. I assume this is because there is still an OS on the drive. I even tried opening it with a drive partition program, but it dosent see it. So how can I hook it up with out it freezing everything? The adapter might be bad or incompatible… I’ve seen this happen before. Are you running XP/Vista? Also if its not the adapter the hard drive may be bad… Depending on iff its SATA or IDE just go buy the correct enclosure for it and see if that works --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-some-hdd-help-singh-maybe/246450)._