Adding HDD with data to existing system

[stonedsmurf]

Hey 

 

My friends pc crashed and can't roll back or update windows. But he still has a lot of photos and videos on his :D drive, so want to add his :D drive ( 1 tb HDD ) to my system to try and recover his data.

 

Can I just plug it in to my system and let windows recognize it with disk manager without losing the data on the drive ?

 

Or are their some other steps I have to take to try and recover his data without losing any files on his or mine system ?

 

Thank you in advance for the help

 

-stonedsmurf

 

[aDoomGuy]

As long the drive is 100% operational and there is no data loss/corruption, just stick that sucker in there and copy what he needs.

 

If there is data loss you can try to restore it but make well sure no data is written to the drive before you have restored data. If the drive has a problem then it's not this easy and you may not be able to get the data off it without sending it in to specialists which is expensive.

[stonedsmurf]

Thank you for your reply.

 

I don't know 100% if his drive is still okay, we'll just give it a shot with plugging it into my PC and than we'll hope for the best I guess.