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- Extracting data from a dead laptop with a laptop hard drive adapter
- On a recent Monday morning, I received a panic-stricken phone call from one of the fellows on the sales team. As he was getting out of his car in the parking lot, he dropped his laptop on the concrete. Why it wasn't secured in the padded case is another story....
- Technical articles 2004-03-03
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- laptop hard drive problem
- I need to get data from my laptop hard drive to my desktop pc - the power connection on laptop has broken/battery not holding charge - have a IDE 2.5 adapter and plugged into desktop pc. Laptop hard drive visible and files I need, but can't copy/paste from laptop...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-17
- what is the portable hard drive adapter called?
- what is the portable hard drive adapter called i've searched all over the internet and i keep finding desktop adapters. my portable western digital hard drive adapter was damaged but the hard drive works fine as a internal but i want to keep it external and so i need to...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-27
- Laptop Hard Drive died
- My Dell laptop hard drive died, is there a way for me to connect an external hard drive to it to boot up, then get my data off it??Bartpe or ReatogoYou could use a Boot Disk like BartPEbuilderor Reatgo. They will boot an ntfs based system.That dependsIf your laptop will...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- retrieving files from and old hard drive connected as a slave
- I would like to know how to access a file from a hard drive connected as a slave on my desktop. The slave drive was removed from my laptop (Compaq presario 7200) and was connected to my desktop hard drive(Gateway FX400X) using a laptop hard drive adapter. My computer detect...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-21
- TOSHIBA LAPTOP HARD DRIVE CRASH ACCESS QUERY
- Laptop hard drive, after making scratchy noise, died. Unable to retrieve any info. Replaced Hard Drive, re-install all fine. Purchased USB-IDE cable and connected old HD. In Device Manager, the HD id shows under "disk drives" as Toshiba MK6022GAX usb Device. Properties box states that this drive is...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- Can I connect a Laptop hard drive (Not 2.5") to IDE
- I have a Laptop hard drive(Not 2.5") that I am trying connect to an IDE cable to recover some files. This is from a Sony Vaio that is about 13 months old. I have the adapter to connect to the 2.5" laptop drives and am familiar with the...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-10
- Problem with USB External Hard Drive
- Hey there,I just bought a Western Digital My Passport Essentials 250GB External Hard drive 2 days ago. I connected it to a Windows XP Desktop computer, but it just kept plugging and unplugging. Eventually, it stopped unplugging, and I copied all files on my laptop hard drive to it. When...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Hard drive installation
- Hello,I have just purchase a laptop with no cd-rom and no floppy drive. Does any one know how I can boot this system? I have hard drive that I uninstalled from my other laptop when I upgraded the hard drive and it should still have the operating system installed. However,...
- Q&A 2005-10-11
- Primary Hard diver 0 failed
- Hi all:My laptop can't boot normally. Must boot many times(it seems like when it is hot, it can boot it normally)Here is the info:Dell Inspiron 4150Bios version A04OS. XP professionalWhat I have done:Because it can't boot, I though it cause by virus. I did saw some virus when I used...
- Q&A 2005-01-29
- Laptop Hard Drive Problem
- Hi,A few weeks ago, my laptop began giving me the message "Operating System Not Found" upon start-up. I was told by people more knowledgeable than me that the hard drive had died. I bought a USB to IDE adapter to try and retrieve the data from that hard drive onto...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
- Can someone please help me how to change a laptop hard drive?
- I bought a laptop with 4GB memory and my friend tried to put extra memory on it and convert it from OS to XP but in the process he said that the hard drive crashed. So I was wondering if I can just change the broken hard drive with a...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- HELP! Extracting data from a dead laptop with a laptop hard drive adapter
- Greg Shultz, I followed you advice on your article from Mar 3, 2004, BUT trying to avoid opening my desktop, I purchased the kit for USB connection http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=1501&sku=39994The laptop HD makes tracking noises; I see the drive on my desktop but can't open it.Do you think if I don't use...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-21
- Connecting old laptop hd to new pc?
- Hello everyone,Call me lazy but I didn't think it would be fair to me to search for hours to find some down-to-earth instructions on how in the world to do the following:I have a Toshiba laptop hd that I would like to connect to my much newer desktop pc. ...
- Q&A 2006-01-26
- Very Old Laptop
- the laptop is a Core Pacific NB-386SX i never heard of it. the CMOS battery died, the user replaced the battery and now when they boot up, they are getting a hard disk controller diagnostic error message. we retrieved the specs for the hard drive which is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Extracting data from a dead hard drive *Please Help*
- Hello Everyone, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with some problems I have been having with my Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop. I have had the unit for a few years now with minor issues here and there. A few months ago, I...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-22
- Help with protable hard drive
- MY western digital passport 250gb is having problems. i plug it in and it reads it for a few minutes i can access all my data but then it disapears and if i try to reconnect it to other usb ports on the computer it reads it only once i...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-26
- reinstall WIN 98 on laptop NO CD drive!?
- one sunny morn I started my laptop to the error message that it could not locate . So I oh so cleverly moved that file from a friends laptop to my own excellent specimen via floppy, in DOS mode. This triggered multiple other errors, ending in an message. I...
- Q&A 2004-12-01
- Motherboard failed but need to recover hard drive data from sony V laptop
- I have Sony Vaio laptop and it stopped functioning because of motherboard failure .Now it not getting started at all and I need to recover all my hard drive data . I took out the hard drive from the laptop . But...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- Configuration (How do I... Build your own external hard drive enclosure?)
- Not build your own, use one from a storeThis is how to install a store-bought hard drive enclosure, which I think would come with instructions.I want to know how to make my own enclosure. I have several HDs that I just want to get info off. But I don't want...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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