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Old 01-17-2009, 07:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default External HD problem - Help needed please

Hi I'm new to the forum and would be obliged if anyone can help me.

I have a Medion Drive 'n' Go (Seagate) 250GB external HD (Purchased from Aldi a while back) Until recently it was working fine.

I did a quick 'Google' and it seems that a lot of seagate HD's have problems with the USB connector coming loose (Wobbly tooth syndrome) due to poor solder. Upon close inspection I noticed that mine was slightly loose.

Fingers crossed it looks like I might be lucky and the problem is with the USB connector and the HD itself might be okay, so what I need now is a new enclosure.

The thing is, I have about 30GB worth of family photos and video on the HD, I do not have any backups of the photos and video so I really need to be able to recover them.

I've just been looking on ebay at 2.5 enclosures. It doesn't look like all 2.5 enclosures are made to be compatable (interchangable) with all 2.5 HD's? My 2.5 HD looks different to a lot of the 2.5 HD's that I've seen on the Internet.

I've got a spare external 2.5 HD that's surplus to requirements so I thought that I'd use the enclosure from that, however, the USB connector on that enclosure is totally different (although the same make) from the damaged one and therefore will not fit the HD that I need to extract the photos etc from.

I hope the above makes sense.

Based on the photos of my HD below (USB connector removed), does anyone know what enclosure will be compatable with it?

Thanks in advance for any advice.



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