Accessing old hard disc

[jjgreenwood]

Hi

Back in 2007 I did a bit of bitcoin mining and probably managed to mine 1.5-2 bitcoins. After 18 months I gave up on it and eventually changed computers but kept the old hard discs. One of them an SSD I formatted at some point so I know that will need to go to a data recovery company to try and get any of the old data off it. The other a Samsung HD103SJ I am trying to access via windows 11 and can't for the life of me work out how to do it. It is visible in the bios, windows device manager can see it and it shows as enabled but it is not present in file explorer. Has anyone got any ideas on how I can see the data and find out if my old bitcoin wallet is on it?

 

[jjgreenwood]

Any recommendations on what software to use?

 

[jjgreenwood]

OK I'll take a look just downloaded EaseUS, it doesn't show the drive - it isn't in disc manager either. It is in device manager.

 

[jjgreenwood]

I've managed to read the drive using an external enclosure. Bad news it doesn't have the bitcoins on it so they must have been on the formatted SSD.

 

[jjgreenwood]

It works I'm trying to use recoverit but it still isn't finding the old files

 

[jjgreenwood]

Formatted and unused, all I can see via recovery software is 12 files. It hasn't been used for years just sitting in a draw.