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| Thread ID: 110896 | 2010-07-06 08:20:00 | Maxtor external hard drive problems | globe (11482) | Press F1 |
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| 1116465 | 2010-07-06 09:30:00 | Find a reasonable IT engineer, if the drives ok it shouldn't take them long to put in another enclosure for you. If the drive is stuffed then it may cost a packet to get the data back. | gcarmich (10068) | ||
| 1116466 | 2010-07-08 11:08:00 | one last question, if i take out the hard drive can I then permamently fit this into my machine (presuming I fond it works) or does it need to go back into another external enclosure ? thanks |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1116467 | 2010-07-09 01:50:00 | Its just a HD in case & can be fitted into a pc. You MAY need hardware to mount it (if its 2.5") & PC will need to support its interface : sata/ide. As long as it was off when it was dropped, the HD may be OK. they are rated for some pretty big G shocks (when off). |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 1116468 | 2010-07-09 02:01:00 | OTOH it doesn't take much of a drop to generate some rather large G's .... | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1116469 | 2010-07-11 10:19:00 | Its just a HD in case & can be fitted into a pc. You MAY need hardware to mount it (if its 2.5") & PC will need to support its interface : sata/ide. So I've opened up the external hard drive and the pc and have found that the hard drive is SATA and the pc is IDE. What i would ideally like to be able to do is install the hard drive as a slave drive to the IDE. Can i get a adapter that'll aloow this or is there another method I should be looking at ? Or would i be better off still asking somebody with SATA to plug in the hard drive and see if it works on their machine first ? thanks |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1116470 | 2010-07-11 10:26:00 | One other thing I have just looked up my motherboard and it seems that it does not have any SATA ports that I can find. (www.ecs.com.tw) | globe (11482) | ||
| 1116471 | 2010-07-11 12:28:00 | If you don't have SATA ports then find someone who does. You said it doesn't show in "My Computer" but does it show up in "Disk Management" ? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1116472 | 2010-07-11 23:46:00 | You said it doesn't show in "My Computer" but does it show up in "Disk Management" ? Negative. |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1116473 | 2010-07-12 00:32:00 | Guess you'll have to try connecting it directly then I wouldn't be surprised if the enclosure was faulty, I had one randomly die |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1116474 | 2010-07-18 08:03:00 | Guess you'll have to try connecting it directly then I wouldn't be surprised if the enclosure was faulty, I had one randomly die Have plugged it straight into a SATA drive and no luck. Things don't look that hopeful now it seems...unless there are other suggestions out there ? cheers Forgot to say also rang seagate/maxtor as it is a 7200.11 and read the sn to them. Apparently there are no issues with the firmware on this drive as they have had on others over the last couple of years....... |
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