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    Just took out my HDD from my old Asus A4000 and want to put it to use

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by andros_forever, May 8, 2010.

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    Just took out my Hard Disk from my 3 year old Asus that was no longer in use because I had fried my motherboard with some spilled water.

    I recently took apart my new p7805u and saw that there is a space for another HDD, but unfortunately I see that the pins to connect to the motherboard are different from the ones on my Asus HDD.

    Please share any ways I can put my old HDD to use, I would definetly like to salvage all that data on that drive that was left there long ago and possibly gain some more storage space as well.
     
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    Buy a empty HD closure from ebay/dealextreme and use it as an external HD.

    Ebay // dealextreme
     
    roy_nor, May 8, 2010
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    Nice will this one ebay work with the stock HDD on the A4000? If it does I'll get it right away
     
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    Just check your drive against these two, if you got a SATA drive, get a SATA enclosure, IDE drive, IDE enclosure.
     
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    thanks man, +rep
     
    andros_forever, May 9, 2010
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    I just tried the HDD external box and the hard drive fits with the pins except for 4 pins that remain untouched. The pins haven't gone in all the way, they fit in the holes but
    i haven't pushed hard to try and force them in. I hook it up to my laptop and it says device is not initialized. Something missing?
     
    andros_forever, May 12, 2010
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