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Use Internal Hard Drive externally???

  • 01-04-2010 3:42pm
    #1
    kopfan77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭


    Hoping someone might be able to help me out and hope this is the right place to post

    I have an old piece of junk laptop...years old...its well knackered.....keyboard doesnt work in huge chunks. Ive enquired in loads of places only to be told it cant be repaired.

    Still, I know there isnt a problem with the hard drive.

    So Im wondering if the hard drive was removed from it, is there anyway it can be rescued and used externally and connected to my new laptop via usb or something like that.

    Its just that Ive lots of movies and music on it that Itd be nice to be able to save

    Any advice would be appreciated


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    It sure can. It will depend on what type of hard drive it is. Whether it is a SATA or a IDE/PATA drive. Something like THIS if it's a SATA drive.
    What laptop is it exactly(Make+Model), we might be able to tell you what hard drive it has.


  • #3
    kopfan77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭kopfan77


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    It sure can. It will depend on what type of hard drive it is. Whether it is a SATA or a IDE/PATA drive. Something like THIS if it's a SATA drive.
    What laptop is it exactly(Make+Model), we might be able to tell you what hard drive it has.


    Wow, thanks for the quick reply. the laptop is a fujitsu siemens amilo d 7850.
    I think the hard drive from doing some googling is a seagate 40g....thats about all the info i have though :confused:


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    If it starts up, and has an ethernet socket,and you can borrow an external keyboard, you could share the folders, mount as a network drive and copy files to another pc/laptop.


  • #5
    kopfan77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭kopfan77


    Ok so heres an update.

    Ive attached pics for reference. Got a gadget which I thought might help...a 2.5" SATA housing thingy....however the connection on it seems way way too small to attach to the hard drive.

    Any additional advice or help would be appreciated.

    Id really like to be able to save whats on this hard drive


  • #6
    DemoniK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭DemoniK


    you have a SATA harddisk enclosure
    What you need is a PATA or IDE enclosure
    something like
    http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/02_HDDCASE/productdetails/15323067/Akasa_Integral_P2_HDD_Enclosure_for/AK-ENP2N-BK/default.aspx


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  • #7
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    This sounds like an uber-techy solution but it's actually quite simple.

    If you're willing to swap the old hard drive into your new computer temporarily and you have an external hard drive you can connect via USB and you have a USB pen drive, you can make a bootable live install of Linux on the pen drive and use that to copy all your old data to the external drive.

    It's all explained pretty easily here.

    Note: that's assuming that both drives use the same interface, from the post above your new laptop may be SATA while the old one is IDE, if it's so then you can't use this method unfortunately.


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