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brianluce
04-03-2008, 06:05 PM
My old desktop won't turn on. The hard drive is new though, it was a single hard drive machine, ie, the OS and files were on a single, partitioned hard drive.
If I want to retrieve some of the data off the Hdd, can I merely put the old hdd into a external enclosure, hook up usb and extract the data onto my laptop? Or will the old OS turn my laptop in to a jellyfish?
DivotDan
04-03-2008, 06:17 PM
assuming the drive is not dead, yes.....hook it up to your laptop and get your files.
brianluce
04-03-2008, 09:44 PM
assuming the drive is not dead, yes.....hook it up to your laptop and get your files.
Looks like the hdd enclosure I got is for the fat ribbon type of Hdd, my hdd has the skinny one, I guess this is ide versus sata? Anyway, do they make an adapter for connecting newer style data cables to external enclosures set up for the old style fat ribbons?
mjjason
04-04-2008, 08:49 AM
newegg.com is your friend. Any computer part you need. And I do believe the have Pata (ide) to sata connectors. Not sure if they work great though
MiniMan13
04-04-2008, 09:10 AM
Any computer part you need. And I do believe the have Pata (ide) to sata connectors. Not sure if they work great though
i would recommend against it, just get a different hard drive case
But newegg does own!
yes, they have them. You can get them for about 20 to 30 bucks.
I don't know newegg but tigerdirect has them. They will connect any sata to usb2
-rook
DivotDan
04-04-2008, 07:47 PM
I use one of these, great for this sort of thing. Plus it comes with HDD protectors.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152