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I had the same trouble, the problem was the partition was damaged and then its imposible for the new PC to detect it (you don’t see anithing in MiPC). I just want to collaborate with this web site and all the people strugling to have access to the hard drive once connected to antoher PC. It’s been of big help to initially gain access to my “lost” data in my harddrive.
If not I’ll find something else for you to try.
You should be able to turn on your computer and load into your operating system and transfer those precious files from your old hard drive (currently set as slave) to the new one (currently set as master)
#Open documents on usb to ide hard drive manual
If it comes back as nothing is ther you will need to take the harddrive out and look at it to find the hard drive properties that the cmos will ask for if you do a manual setting. go into cmos in the bios and have it do an auto search for your hardrives if it does not already recognize them. most mother boards will automaticly have detected your hardrive settings. you may need to go into the bios to get your mother board to recognize the drives. You could try switching the jumper on your hard drive to slave and connect another hard drive that can boot into an operating system and have it’s jumper set to master (sometimes will have master with slave present) connect them both to one ide cable and turn on your computer.
#Open documents on usb to ide hard drive how to
Any suggestions on how to access the data on the drive?Ģ other quick points: 1) I hear the drive spinning when connected and 2)there are 4 other prongs on the HD which are not encorporated into the adapter, could that be a problem? However, after wasting most of my weekend toying with it, I’m starting to think shelling out the cash may be easier.
#Open documents on usb to ide hard drive professional
As well as being listed under Drive maint, it’s also listed when I select to “safely remove hardware.” I’m not the most computer savvy person but was hoping to save myself the $100 I was quoted for professional data retrieving service. Again, after visiting other forums, I went to the Disk management section and “initialized” the drive, however, I still cannot find it anywhere else on the computer to access the files. I’ve attached the HD to another functioning laptop via the USB, but it is not listed under “My computer.” Actually tried this with 2 different computers- one with vista and one with xp. After reading similar forums, I purchased a USB adapter for my old HD. My Dell laptop crashed earlier this week giving me a “No boot sector of hard drive,” message when I tried to reboot after receiving the blue screen of death. My previous post explains how to connect a notebook hard drive to a desktop PC via IDE hard drive adapter. If you are getting “Access denied” message when you are trying to access your files on the hard drive, you’ll have to take ownership of a file or folder. After that the external hard drive will appear in My Computer and you can access it as any other hard drive in the computer. As soon as you connect the enclosure to the computer, the external hard drive should be detected and recognized automatically. If the computer you are connecting the enclosure to runs Windows 2000 or higher, you will not need any device drivers. You don’t need any external power supply for the enclosure because the hard drive gets power through USB ports. The enclosure cable usually has two USB connectors on one end, make sure both of them are connected to the computer. After that insert the hard drive into the case.Īfter everything is assembled, you are ready to connect this device to any working computer (notebook or PC). Open up the enclosure case and connect the hard drive to the connector inside. For this example I’m using an ATA hard drive. Now remove the hard drive from the laptop.