Any ideas

[xp lover]

I had to buy my new computer, (windows vista home premium) after the power
box died in my old win xp computer. I still have the hard drive. Any ideas
of how I can access old hard drive and how much it will cost?
thx

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I had to buy my new computer, (windows vista home premium) after the power
box died in my old win xp computer. I still have the hard drive. Any
ideas of how I can access old hard drive and how much it will cost?
thx

You should be able to slave the old hard drive into the new computer for
data recovery, and all it'd cost is a few minutes of time.


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[Dave]

If your old drive uses the IDE interface, and your new computer uses SATA,
then you may need an adaptor to connect the old drive to your new machine in
order to retrieve your data.

I have not tried any of these... so I don't know if they would work...

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=USB2IDE-25-35&cpc=RECOM

http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-acessories.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998008

 

[Michael Chare]

If your old drive uses the IDE interface, and your new computer uses SATA,
then you may need an adaptor to connect the old drive to your new machine
in order to retrieve your data.

I have not tried any of these... so I don't know if they would work...

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=USB2IDE-25-35&cpc=RECOM

http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-acessories.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998008

Quite likely the PC has a PATA DVD/CDROM with a spare connection to which
an IDE could be attached,

 

[ray]

I had to buy my new computer, (windows vista home premium) after the power
box died in my old win xp computer. I still have the hard drive. Any ideas
of how I can access old hard drive and how much it will cost?
thx

If you indeed meant that the power supply died, that is one of the easiest
things in the computer to replace. Should cost about $20.

 

[John Wesley Asquith]

If you indeed meant that the power supply died, that is one of the easiest
things in the computer to replace. Should cost about $20.

Why not just install the old hard drive in your new computer as a 2nd
hard disk? I did that when my computer died and occasionally go back
and retrieve stuff from the old hard drive. I also use it as a backup
to the new computer's hard drive since it is separate stand-alone
hardware and the probability of a double-failure is virtually nil.

 

[Rock]

I had to buy my new computer, (windows vista home premium) after the power
box died in my old win xp computer. I still have the hard drive. Any
ideas of how I can access old hard drive and how much it will cost?

Install the old drive as a slave drive in the new computer (no cost), or buy
an external drive enclosure (in the range of $20), put the old drive in
there, and connect that via USB to the new computer.

 

[DanR]

I had to buy my new computer, (windows vista home premium) after the power
box died in my old win xp computer. I still have the hard drive. Any
ideas of how I can access old hard drive and how much it will cost?
thx

As others have suggested... you may find the same flat ribbon cable that
will connect to your old hard drive. Maybe shared with the CD/DVD device.
And others have used the word "slave". To slave your old hard drive you will
likely need to change a jumper on the old hard drive. Look for pins that
have a jumper. Look for a label somewhere on the hard drive that tells you
how the pins should be jumperd to make that drive a slave. The label could
be very near the jumpers or on the label on top of the drive. You will
probably need a small needle nose pliers or tweezers to move the jumper.
Don't drop it!

 

[DanR]

and the probability of a double-failure is virtually nil.
I've seen some Gateway computers that had the power supply directly under
the hard drive(s). When the fan dies on these units everything in the
vicinity of the PS burns up.

 

[DanS]

Why not just install the old hard drive in your new computer as a 2nd
hard disk? I did that when my computer died and occasionally go back
and retrieve stuff from the old hard drive. I also use it as a backup
to the new computer's hard drive since it is separate stand-alone
hardware and the probability of a double-failure is virtually nil.

Yeah, if virtually nil means a 'good chance'.

I had a power supply fry taking out 2 individual HD's and one of the MB IDE
channels.

So now I back up data to two different network drives in two completely
different PC's. (And occasionally to DVD)