Comments on: Slave A Laptop Hard Drive To USB

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:26:36 +0000

CL,

What kind of info are you looking for?

By: cl

cl — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:41:16 +0000

i have the same problem:
gateway nx570x that i replaced the hard drive for and is running fine now, still on xp
i also have a toshiba satellite c655 running windows 7
i have the old gateway hard drive (was not clicking, just lost partition i think)
i also have sata cables connected to the old gateway hard drive

i could plug connect the old hard drive to the gateway with replaced hard drive or i could connect the old hard drive to the toshiba, but i have yet to try either. i just would like to recover some files off the old gateway hard drive. do you have a video with more info? link?

By: James

James — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:53:51 +0000

I’m trying to slave my hard drive from a 2 year old crashed HP laptop but there seems to be a problem. Instead of there being pins on the front of the hard drive there are two rows of flat copper bars. I was told this is a edge network adapter and to try and remove it to get to the pins. I had to remove the greenboard and found out that the adapter seems to be connected to the greenboard and I see no pins. How do I slave this drive and what type of interface do I have to buy.

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:55:14 +0000

Lucinda,
Alot of times LAPTOP drives have SMALLER pin outs and you need a conversion kit. I would contact your local electronics store with hard drive in hand for advice on how exactly to go about getting this drive into the enclosure.

By: Lucinda Burnickas

Lucinda Burnickas — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:19:45 +0000

I have an hp SATA notebook hard drive and an SATA external HD case. Problem is – it looks like it should fit but there seems to be a “case” or something over it that prevents the pins from fitting. I don’t want to nilly-willy take things off. There are a few screws that allow you to take a case off the sides so it fits into the 2.5″ hd case but the pins don’t fit. Any thoughts/suggestions? Company I purchased the external drive case says it should fit!

By: Paul Catalano

Paul Catalano — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:20:46 +0000

I have an external USB hard drive (Buslink 2.0 Disk-On-The-Go/Lite) that I cannot get the data from. It spins with no particular abnormal noise. My laptop recognizes it as an attached piece of hardware, but it doesn’t show up as an attached drive under “My Computer.” The error I get is a specified I/O operation was not completed prior to timing out.

I don’t need to spend thousands as this is not critical data, but nonetheless, would still like to find out if it can be done and evaluate the cost basis before doing so.

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By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:03:01 +0000

I have a few questions. First, when the drive is installed in the case, it is then okay to leave it in the open? Second, where do you purchase the adapter, do the cases differ between IDE and SATA drives, and are the adapters different for IDE and SATA drives? Finally, when you boot you’re computer and access the files on the external hard drive, does it default at the main drives that you would normally see when accessing files from “My Computer” ( C:, D:, and so on)?

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