{"id":6265,"date":"2021-11-18T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6265"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:58:53","slug":"cmd-prompt-hangs-on-external-drive","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-vista\/cmd-prompt-hangs-on-external-drive\/13825.html","title":{"rendered":"CMD Prompt Hangs On External Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;td&gt;I have an older laptop running on vista that no longer starts windows. Have taken out the HD and connected it to a &#8220;cradle&#8221;, hoping to recover some files from it, using CMD prompt commands. Found Suatcini&#8217;s advice from 2010.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160620222858\/https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/access-denied-to-external-hard-drive\/774.html.&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wi&#8230;&lt;\/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Running CMD prompt (as admin) cacls \u201cF:\u201d \/E \/T \/C \/G Administrators:F gives me a blinking cursor, but no response otherwise. The same happens trying to open a simple text file with &#8220;edit&#8221;. Any suggestions for the CMD prompt &#8211; or to get windows going again?&lt;br&gt;Thank you.&lt;br&gt;Marc &lt;br&gt;&lt;p align=&#8221;right&#8221;&gt;&lt;font size=&#8221;1&#8243;&gt;&lt;i&gt;message edited by Marc_Nic&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/td&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[75],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6265","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-vista"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}