how to access your recovered data from your external HD

[edneedtoknow112]

Hi everyone I haave a question I just recovered my overwritten hard drive and put all the file and data on my external hard drive my question is how do I access it and how do I get it back on to my computer to use the files and data.

[HaQue]

you would re-install windows (safe bet it is windows judging by the question) and then copy back any files you need.

I find it puzzling that you were able to recover overwritten files and get the backed up but you are stuck now..

Can you give a bit more information

[edneedtoknow112]

HaQue I was shock myself and didn't think I was going to recover it too well to be honest not all the files and data came back but the most important ones were there and I was like wow. i got to tell y I think it happened this way tho, when my hard drive got overwritten I immediately shout it down, it overwritten the entire c drive I took it out my laptop (mind u the hard drive was a Toshiba HDD 500gbs) and put in my old hard drive I upgraded from and found me a software recovery program ( Steller Phoenix Data Recovery) put my hard drive in my Cavalry Dock put that in my computer (usb) and ran Steller and it pulled up all my data and files even the ones that I deleted. some still had viruses and other had no Bytes(size) in them, but most of my important ones were there mind U I had used like 395GB on this hard drive and Steller found 1155.43GB so i got my money worth and found a whole lot of files and was happy with the results. Now from there I bought me a 2TB external hard drive and put and the files on it now I'm stuck wit getting the file back on my hard drive I dont want to mess this up I saw that u can use the external hard drive as the primary active drive on the laptop is that true and how can you do that or what else should I do?