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I pulled this hard drive out of my laptop that died like 10 years ago. I want to try to pull the data off of it, if there's anything left. The form factor for the pins doesn't match the ATA cables I have. It looks like the same pinout but a smaller form factor. How do I hook this up to my PC? This is my motherboard if that makes much difference. What the chances the drive will have retained anything?
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 20:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2024 07:08 |
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Geemer posted:Try looking for a mini-IDE to SATA or just normal IDE or maybe even USB converter. I have an ancient 100 MHz netbook-sized laptop that has a full-size IDE drive in it and Windows 3.1 still loads up like a champ. It is at least 20 years old now. You'll probably be able to pull off all the data unless it died from the hard drive failing. Thanks, that was enough for me to find what I need!
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 21:14 |
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Papercut posted:I pulled this hard drive out of my laptop that died like 10 years ago. I want to try to pull the data off of it, if there's anything left. So I got all of the pieces to hook this up, it's correctly recognized in BIOS and I have the correct boot order, but Windows hangs on startup. I can hear the old drive spinning, but then it gives a little "thinking" sounds and then rhythmically clicks. Basically, whirrrr-thinking-click-click-click, pause, click-click, pause, click-click-click etc. It's hosed, yeah?
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2014 19:05 |
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Geemer posted:Pretty much. Though you could give the freezer trick a shot. You're down the rabbit hole already, so might as well go whole hog. Yeah gonna try that with very low expectations.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2014 22:36 |
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Gromit posted:So you are hooking this drive up as a slave to your existing system, and it's preventing it from booting into Windows? Or have you hooked this drive up solo and are trying to boot from it? You'd be doing the former, ideally. Yeah it's hooked up as a slave, not trying to boot from it. I tried different master/slave and jumper configurations, same result with all of them. And thanks for the offer! But yeah, not really worth it to ship halfway around the world just to see if I can recover any of my photos or papers from college.
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 05:34 |