Get data from hard drive

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miket23

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Hey my mom's computer hard drive crashed during a thunderstorm. the hard drive won't work anymore, but she still wants the data off of it. I was wondering what the best and cheapest methods to do this would be?
 
munkyeetr said:
Plug it into another computer as a slave drive and copy the data off.
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Well, if that would work then there wouldn't be any problem to begin with...

If the hard drive gets fried, the simplest way I know to get the data off is to buy another hard drive of the exact same model and swap out the platters. Kinda risky, but MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than professional data recovery.
 
yea we got an old computer from a house, it works ok, the people just left it there and i tried hooking it up as slave, didnt work. maybe i'm doing it wrong, could you explain how to do that? and yea i was thinking of your idea pohtaytoez as a last resort possibility
 
hey, one quick question, if i leave this hard drive connected after i get the files off of it, will it speed up my computer or anything?
 
No, I've noticed hooking up a second drive seems to slow things down until I obliterated the data a few times by formatting.
 
Apollogies for stealing your thread but i have a similar problem that was not solved by the same advice. I dropped my laptop a while back and the damned thing stopped working, anyhows took out the HDD and hooked it up to my tower (the tower is very old but working) when i attach both the working HDD that was in there already and the laptop HDD the BIOS refuses to recognise either saying "primary master failed, primary slave failed" I've checed the jumper switches for both and they are set correctly, plus they are on the correct ATA connector on the wire. What else should i check/ why is it doing this???

Cheers, F
 
You shouldn't be able to connect a laptop hard drive to a standard IDE cable... laptop hard drives have less pins. You'll need an adapter.
 
Have you used that adapter successfully before with that computer? I would want to eliminate the adapter as as source of problems, or the HD; it could be either. The fact that the drive was dropped (while in a laptop) doesn't look good for the drive. It doesn't take much of a drop to kill a drive.
 
i haven't used this particular adapter before but i'll check it again with another one, just wandered if there is something i'm missing. i can boot up the tower with the original HDD but when i put in both HDDs the BIOS says they fail. any other ideas?? please!
 
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