Hard drive issues

Postby **meboeck** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:20 pm

My hard drive is messed up and I have to get a new one. However, since the problem was a hardware problem and not software, my dad thinks we should be able to retrieve any files that are still intact by hooking the old hard drive up as an external drive. Would this work, and if so how would I go about hooking up a regular hard drive as an external drive? I have nothing backed up (yes I know that was incredibly not smart) so retrieving any files at all woul be very very nice.

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:26 pm

You can buy an external hard drive mount and place the old drive in it. They come in USB or firewire models. If you can get one of those, you can probably pull your data off with it.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:18 pm

It all really depends how much damage has been done to the harddrive.

Postby **Warrior4Christ** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:56 am

I'm wondering why you need to make it an external drive? I'd think you have just as much chance connecting it as a second drive internally and trying to get the data off. (In the BIOS, change the boot order so the new hard disk is booted first before the old (not working) one.)

Postby **meboeck** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:29 pm

Thanks for the help Mith and W4C. I can't try either approach until I get my new hard drive which I ordered online, but hopefully once I get it I will be able to retrieve whatever files are still intact.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:25 pm

Just to be safe, you did get the correct size harddrive right?

Postby **meboeck** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:17 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Just to be safe, you did get the correct size harddrive right?

That's the whole reason I got it online. I went to Dell.com and got essentially the same hard drive as my original.

Postby **creed4** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:50 am

If you havn't replaced the harddrive yet try useing a Live CD to boot your system and look at the hardrive

Postby **Mithrandir** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:35 pm

If my memory serves me correctly, there is an open source thing called "the ultimate boot CD." If you can get one of those, you might be albe to run some diagnostics on the drive from that - but it's iffy if you'll be able to use the software (some of it is pretty obscure stuff).

- Just FYI.

Postby **AGITA** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:35 am

First of all, did the hard drive go kuput or just file corruption?

Don't use "the ultimate boot CD" its a low level tool for people who know only enough to hurt themselves. (no offence)(much experience with stup boot cds)

If you don't want to keep the drive set the jumper to slave and copy the data.

If you do want to keep, leave in the position of slave and after you get the data, reformat the hard drive, and keep for storage(iff its good)

not that hard

Dell

Postby **Yahshua** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:10 pm

http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations.html

Postby **Mithrandir** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:44 pm

AGITA wrote:Don't use "the ultimate boot CD" its a low level tool for people who know only enough to hurt themselves. (no offence)(much experience with stup boot cds)

I've never had any trouble with it, and I used it at work for quite some time.

*shrugs*

Postby **AGITA** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:03 pm

Mithrandir wrote:I've never had any trouble with it, and I used it at work for quite some time.

*shrugs*

Sorry did'nt mean to sound hatefull. Reads diffrent than it sounded in my head. But its just that i've had and have seen bad experiences with it. don't trust it but mabey its changed in the last while. Tried hirens?

Anyway did anything solve your HD problem?

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