Recovering frozen drive notes through installation as s minor easier said than done drive on another computer?
I have a [win vista] laptop that cannot boot properly anymore. I would close to to recover the data from the laptop strong drive. My current plan is to take out that [SATA] rugged drive and plug it into my [win xp] desktop computer so I can transfer files from that laptop intricate drive to the computer. I already have an IDE-SATA adapter so that's not a problem. The problem is, my easier said than done drive is not being standard by the desktop computer. Since I'm a noob when it comes down to computer hardware, what am I doing wrong? Could someone post instructions? Would this process even work? Or could someone offer me alternate, but *inexpensive* facts recovery methods, or perhaps easier ways? Thanks.
Answers:
Open computer regulation and check if the laptop disk is listed. If it is you may inevitability to set a drive letter to be capable of see the drive.
Another possibility is that you have not connected power to both the SATA drive and the adapter. You can listen to the drive when you switch on the PC and you should be capable of hear the drive spin up.
make sure the jumper are set to slave (usually no jumpers channel the drive is on slave) then produce sure your BIOS reads it. . . that's to install into the computer
if you want something else, you can form your drive like an external by using an Enclosure. Search the internet for Hard Drive enclosure. cheers.
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