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    Need help recovering data from a SSD drive coming from an acer aspire one.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jony911, Feb 1, 2011.

  1. jony911

    jony911 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey,

    I have an acer aspire one drive with very important information on it, the laptop crapped out and i disassembled it to get the hard disk out. to my suprise it was an SSD drive with some type of ribbon connector attached to it. Is there any type of adapter available that goes from "ribbon" to sata or usb or firewire or anything that can help me recover the information on the drive?

    the drive looks exactly like this, http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/03/intel-debuts-z-p230-pata-ssd-drive-for-netbooks-and-nettops/
     
    jony911, Feb 1, 2011
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  2. robbert-h

    robbert-h Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Jony911,

    The thing you show in the link is a PATA connector. A simple typ in google "PATA to USB" gave me this link; Newegg. But I see you live in Montreal so you need to find a retailer that ships to Canada.

    I hope I helped you a bit!
     
    robbert-h, Feb 2, 2011
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  4. Dr.Colossos

    Dr.Colossos Notebook Evangelist

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    You may argue that this approach is stupid, but I still suggest it.

    Hop on ebay or where ever you think you can get a cheap aspire one - buy it, put your ssd in, get the data, sell the aspire one again.

    Of course, this makes only sense if the "adapter" costs more than maybe 20$ ...

    Anyway, good luck!
     
    Dr.Colossos, Feb 3, 2011
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