HDD GURU FORUMS

I had a dell laptop that crashed and I took out the hard drive out of it and I'm trying to transfer information from it to either my new laptop or an external hard drive and It's not working. I have the SATA cable and when I connect the hard drive to my laptop I can't open any files to view or transfer them. I went to computer management, storage, disk management and I can see the hard drive being connected and it has like 900gb on it but I can't pull any information from it. Can anyone help?

Is it protected by a password?

What does CrystalDiskInfo report?

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

By description, looks like there was no encryption. But, as fzakbar said, try to check drive by CrystalDiskInfo, HDDScan or Hard Disk Sentinel (or similar). There can be a bad-sectors with delayed response or some interface problem.