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r/DataHoarder • … • u/gorange_ninja

How do I move a hard drive from one computer to another without losing data?

I'm moving a hard drive from my Windows 2012 Server (hardware raid) to my Windows 10 computer. Windows 10 is complaining that the drive is unknown and not initialized.

Is there a way to get it to recognize all the partitions/data that's on it, I don't really want to spend hundreds of euros on data recovery tools.

EDIT: SOLVED

I put the drive back into the server, it showed up in Proxmox but couldn't be passed into my windows-server-2012 VM I made, so I manually added a passthrough using the physical disk id (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)).

I then went into the VM, disk management -> set the disk to online, and everything is just as I left it.

Now I just need to spend a day transferring terabytes of data through the SMB share.

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