Comments on: Data Recovery: How To Hook Up A Hard Drive

By: Son

Son — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:56:58 +0000

I tried one cheaper IDE/SATA USB product for a Fujitsu SATA drive out of a Compaq V6120US but could not hook up the power. How good are these drive enclosures?

By: Eliza

Eliza — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:30:09 +0000

I have an old computer that does not recognize now the maxter hard drive. When I turn the computer it gives this message: “verifying DMI Pool Data”. Later on shows: “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press Enter”. I put the ‘start up disk windows 98. Then, I get the message: “Windows 98 has detected that drive C doe not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partition…I originally had windows 95 and I upgraded to windows ME. I need the computer to recognize the hard drive and after that to reinstall the operating sytem–Windows ME. I appreciate all the help given to this matter.

By: Denzil

Denzil — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:12:03 +0000

okay, I can’t figure this out. Please help.
My old HP desktop running XP went out and was replaced with a new HP running Windows 7. I need some data from the ‘old’ (WD2500 Serial ATA) hard drive. I purchased a [ Deluxe USB to IDE Cable w/power adapter] to plug into and retrieve my files via USB. My HP with windows7 will only recognize it as a bridge and I can not pull anything up in Explore. So, I plugged it into a Toshiba laptop running Vista. On this computer it recognized the hard drive and was able to pull it up in Explore and see my files lised. I can even open word docs and other files that I had saved in various folders. My problem is that the files I need to access are saved in the HP-Administrator folder and those files will not open. I get messages that I do not have permission or that access is denied. How can I gain access to these files??? Please help.

By: James in the Midwest

James in the Midwest — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:46:43 +0000

80 gb Hitachi – IDE (HDS728080PLAT20) won’t spin up!
I had to shut down power to everything via the power strip – I know, not good! Anyway, now I cannot get my external HDD to spin up. It’s getting power – the green lights on the disk enclosure and power adapter cord box are on. Have tried gently shaking it. Also tried a different enclosure…no luck. I’m guessing bad PCB but hope I’m wrong as it’s hard to find an exact replacement. Someone mentioned hooking it up as a slave to a desktop. Any ideas?

By: burno41

burno41 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:13:21 +0000

I’m trying to connect a slave drive to my current computer. When I set the jumper to slave my computer does not detect the drive. However, when I set the jumper to master, my computer does detect it. How can I make my computer detect the drive as a slave?

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:21:41 +0000

I have a virus on my computer, which has resulted in my inability to do anything other than look at a black or blue screen. No system restore, no safe mode, etc…Anyway….because I’m not always backing up files…I want to recover some files from my hard-drive. I will say that I have no idea how to slave the hard drive…though I did take it out, and tried to install in another computer…but thay have a different pin configuration. My laptop is a HP ZV6000. Can I take that hard drive,from the HP, and hook it up to some converter and connect through a USB (on the other and ) and connect to different computer to save my files?

By: Bob Brown

Bob Brown — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:18:16 +0000

I have a Compaq laptop w/ a 60GB Seagate AT drive. System files
have gotten corrupted and I can’t get past BSOD w/ error message
stop: c0000021a. I would like to slave this drive to get some data
files off it before I format it and reinstall the OS. The drive has a
slot connector sitting over the pins and no separate power connector.
Is there a special cable to connect this drive to a standard IDE
cable as a slave?

Thanks -
Bob

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:41:21 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ll try our local Walmart. I appreciate the prompt reply! They are all IDE desktop units altho one is a reduced size.

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:41:20 +0000

Paul, you can get a USB hard drive enclosure anywhere, even walmart. Are the hard drives all desktop drives and IDE?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:34:00 +0000

I have 3 older computers that cannot be accessed for various reasons, but all have good hard drives with photos and logos that I would like to retrieve. Can I remove these HD’s and use a case or box to access the drive via USB cable? I have no idea about where to get something like this or even if it exists. Please comment.

Thanks, Paul

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:47:03 +0000

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