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    advice on installing a busted HDD into G53

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by psteiny, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. psteiny

    psteiny Notebook Guru

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    So I have an old HDD from another laptop, the drive is broken, but I wanted to see if I could salvage some of the data on it.

    Mainly my Douglas Adams discography...

    Do you think there could be any issue sticking this in my G53, try to boot and copy over the data? This is all assuming it can even read the HDD.

    I think the problems on the drive were on the first partition. So fingers x I can get to what I want on the second partition.
     
    psteiny, Dec 8, 2010
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  2. Nakano2k1

    Nakano2k1 Notebook Consultant

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    It's such a pain to get the second HD in the G53JW. I don't see any problems with installing it on your G53 if you like. Just know that when HDs have problems, they usually aren't partition specific.

    I would buy a cheap HD enclosure and save myself the headache.
     
    Nakano2k1, Dec 8, 2010
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    scarletvw Notebook Consultant

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    I would have to agree with Nakano2k1 on using an external HD, you don't want to try booting the "broken" drive, instead, boot up windows on the computer and then plug in the external with the drive in it. Hopefully it will install the drivers and allow you access to the harddrive.
     
    scarletvw, Dec 8, 2010
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