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    Old hard drive - how can i get the data back?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by shinakuma9, Oct 27, 2010.

  1. shinakuma9

    shinakuma9 Notebook Deity

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    My dads old laptop is dead, its either the lcd which isnt so bad or a bricked motherboard which is pretty bad.

    Anyway, not gonna get it fixed but we wanted to salvage some of the data from the hard drive in the laptop. I tried putting the hard drive into my other laptop and booting it up from there and checking if it worked, and it wouldn't. Windows wouldn't boot due to a change in hardware config. So can i just use it as an external then? If i bought an enclosure for example, could i just plug it into a usb port and it should work like a regular external or would there be some problems with that too?

    Thanks
     
    shinakuma9, Oct 27, 2010
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    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes and yes. If you have a desktop available though you could pop it in there and save the expense of getting the enclosure.
     
    Trottel, Oct 27, 2010
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    Alright thanks, dont have a desktop lol so i guess ill have to get a cheap enclosure then.

    One more (stupid) question, how do i tell if my drive is a SATA or IDE?
     
    shinakuma9, Oct 27, 2010
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    If it's NTFS file system, you need to change the owner and strip permissions on the Users/Documents and Settings folder. Otherwise backing up the data will fail. Only XP Pro/Vista/7 can do this.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Oct 27, 2010
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    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    Top drive is SATA. Bottom is IDE

    [​IMG]
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Oct 27, 2010
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    Well the OS on the old HD was windows 7, so should that be a problem?
    We are also backing up on a windows 7 based system.

    @Forge, thanks, I will compare it to the pics.
     
    shinakuma9, Oct 27, 2010
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    Not at all. It's treated as an external. The OS files are just more random data as far as your computer will be concerned.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Oct 27, 2010
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