Laptop Hard drive connected to PC

[jswright33]

I am hoping someone on here can help me with the following problem.

Problem
My brother has a 2.5 Toshiba hardrive from an emachines laptop. It
will no longer boot up, so I am trying to connect it to a PC to see if
I can get some important files off of it for him. He is getting
married and there are pictures of him and his fiance they want to use
in the wedding.

I have searched the web and various groups and found a description on
how to get a 2.5 in to 3.5 in adapter, so I picked one up at CompUSA
this weekend.

I have connected it all up according to the instructions I found over
the web and my Windows XP Pro machine (it is a dELL) does not recognize
the drive in My Computer.

Things I have tried so far.
1. I connected it to the secondary IDE drive, so no jumper changes
made.
2. I put it on the secondary connection on the primary IDE drive. I
used a 3.5 in jumper to try to make it the slave.
NOTE: You can find the info on the 2.5 in drive's jumper settings
here (http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/storage/english/gijutu/jmp25.htm)

Questions
1. Anybody know where you can get jumpers for 2.5 in drives
2. Is there anything I'm missing here?

Thanks for any help anybody can provide.

JW

 

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[LVTravel]

Why didn't it boot up. Was the HDD dead to begin with? If so.....

You seem to have covered the bases with putting the drive in as the
secondary master (you did unhook any other drives (CD-DVD) on that cable!)
Does the connector that you purchased have a location to apply the Desktop's
4 connector power cable to the adapter? Did you in fact hook up the 4
connector power cable to the adapter to give power to the hard drive?

These are some of the items that weren't covered in your OP.

 

[jswright33]

LVTravel,

The operating system on the HDD is fried, but I think the harddrive
data is still salvageable. I have an emachines HDD too and I can't
seem to get it to be recognized.

I did remove the CD and DVD players from IDE 2 cable.

The adapter I got from CompUsa has two pins for power. A red and black
cable and I hooked it up to one of the power connectors in the PC.

That's why I'm frustrated. I seem to have everythign connected, but it
just won't recognize the HDD as a secondary drive.

Thanks for your help
JW

 

[LVTravel]

Do you actually hear (or feel by resting your fingers on the top of the
drive) the drive spin up when power is applied? When the computer goes
through it's post routine, does the drive show up there? IIRC some Dell
machines need to have the bios set to recognize a hard drive on the
secondary channel. You might try to open the bios and see what the
secondary channel master drive is set to (auto?).