lost users files from previous laptop

Hi! I have a big problem and i could really use your help. A month ag
my laptop stopped and never opened again (Toshiba). The technician tol
me that it was the motherboard and that there is nothing i can do.
asked him to pass all my files to an external hard disk and he did.
connect the external with my new laptop but there only drives c and e,
can' t find Documents, or Music or Videos etc. The files exist but ther
are empty, nothing inside. It doesnt say "access denied" or anything
just empty. And the old laptop doesnt open at all! Is there anything
can do? Thank you in advance and excuse me for my english, i m fro
greece:

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const82

Hi,

How does disk manager see the drive?

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"const82" <> wrote in message
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>
> Hi! I have a big problem and i could really use your help. A month ago
> my laptop stopped and never opened again (Toshiba). The technician told
> me that it was the motherboard and that there is nothing i can do. I
> asked him to pass all my files to an external hard disk and he did. I
> connect the external with my new laptop but there only drives c and e, i
> can' t find Documents, or Music or Videos etc. The files exist but there
> are empty, nothing inside. It doesnt say "access denied" or anything,
> just empty. And the old laptop doesnt open at all! Is there anything i
> can do? Thank you in advance and excuse me for my english, i m from
> greece
>
>
> --
> const82

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:42:12 -0500, const82 <>
wrote:

>
>Hi! I have a big problem and i could really use your help. A month ago
>my laptop stopped and never opened again (Toshiba). The technician told
>me that it was the motherboard and that there is nothing i can do. I
>asked him to pass all my files to an external hard disk and he did. I
>connect the external with my new laptop but there only drives c and e, i
>can' t find Documents, or Music or Videos etc. The files exist but there
>are empty, nothing inside. It doesnt say "access denied" or anything,
>just empty. And the old laptop doesnt open at all! Is there anything i
>can do? Thank you in advance and excuse me for my english, i m from
>greece


Most recent laptops use removable hard drives. Possibly you can buy
an external USB drive enclosure that you can plug the HD from your old
laptop into and then you should be able to read teh files on it.
Another option would be to find someone with the same, or maybe
similar model, laptop and put your old drive in their laptop and see
if it boots.