Windows boots but I can't access files after upgrading my laptop HDD?
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There are a number of reasons this can happen. The simplest answer if both drives are NTFS format your files could well have been "PROTECTED" by windows. Reinstall your old drive and copy the files you need to keep to a USB Flash drive or use windows "back-up and Restore" install you new drive and copy them back.
let me guess ... the HDDs are different sizes, right?
sounds like the sector sizes in the two HDDs are different and thus the copied internal table that tells the machine where the files actually begin points to somewhere incorrect.
might be this could be fixed by a good utility program [run it from CD] which would rebuild the table.
seems more likely you'll have to recopy the files from the old HDD using some method other than you already used [what did you use to do this?].
GL
Perhaps the programs uninstalled themselves from the registry when you moved hd- programs which come with windows like IE would work but others wont- this could basically mean (even if the programs themselves are still on your hd), that the computer doesn't have the right program installed to open them (eg, reinstall MS office if you're trying to open a word document).
Hope this helps, if not, just give some more info and I'll let you know if there's anything else it might be- however at first glance it looks liek this has happened.
can you see the drive in Windows explorer?
Can you check whether its properties reflect the actual properties of this HDD?
what is its size?
What OS are you running?
What have you tried to trouble-shoot?
What the HDD new or did you recycle it?
Did you reformat it?
Can you access it via a rescue software/cd?
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