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Posted by nekholm on Jan-06-2008 10:42:

Internal HDD --> external (USB?)

So the computer at mom's place crashed a while ago (quite a long while actually). The HDD with the OS collapsed, and I had another HDD with music on, which I now would like to transfer to my new laptop. I tried to hook it up to the newer computer they got (old one as well), but the HDD in the new one used SCSI, so I guess that's why it didn't recognise the IDE HDD.

So is there any IDE-USB cable, or something similar? I heard from a guy that one of his friends used to work as some computer-technician, and that he had something that could transfer the contents of an internal HDD to a laptop somehow. Any ideas?

The HDD I want the music from is from a "normal" computer, not a laptop.

Posted by BTG on Jan-06-2008 10:48:

i think it would be just easier to put the HDD with music in a working computer as a slave and transfer it over a network.

Posted by nekholm on Jan-06-2008 11:42:

Yes, but I'm just lazy Also I tried once, with some stuff I had on another computer, and I couldn't find the other computers on the network. Can't figure out how to get it working on Vista.

Posted by noikeee on Jan-06-2008 11:47:

Yes, you can buy at any computer hardware store an adaptor that basically turns your IDE drive into an USB external drive. I bought one for the HDD of a laptop that died a while ago. Works fine.

Laptop HDDs and common HDDs have different sizes though, make sure you get an adaptor that fits your drive.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Jan-06-2008 11:48:

never heard of a device like that, but ive never needed one so havent had to search.

just browse online stores in the logical sub-sections.

Posted by nekholm on Jan-06-2008 17:22:

quote:
Originally posted by noikeee
Yes, you can buy at any computer hardware store an adaptor that basically turns your IDE drive into an USB external drive. I bought one for the HDD of a laptop that died a while ago. Works fine.

Laptop HDDs and common HDDs have different sizes though, make sure you get an adaptor that fits your drive.

Nice, have to browse around

Posted by gehzumteufel on Jan-06-2008 18:23:

Re: Internal HDD --> external (USB?)

quote:
Originally posted by nekholm
So the computer at mom's place crashed a while ago (quite a long while actually). The HDD with the OS collapsed, and I had another HDD with music on, which I now would like to transfer to my new laptop. I tried to hook it up to the newer computer they got (old one as well), but the HDD in the new one used SCSI, so I guess that's why it didn't recognise the IDE HDD.

So is there any IDE-USB cable, or something similar? I heard from a guy that one of his friends used to work as some computer-technician, and that he had something that could transfer the contents of an internal HDD to a laptop somehow. Any ideas?

The HDD I want the music from is from a "normal" computer, not a laptop.

first off, if the cable fit on the hdd then it wasnt scsi in the first place. and second, if the HD crashed then the hd itself failed and is dead.

Posted by Porky on Jan-06-2008 20:26:

Posted by Project-K on Jan-06-2008 23:42:

Re: Re: Internal HDD --> external (USB?)

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
first off, if the cable fit on the hdd then it wasnt scsi in the first place. and second, if the HD crashed then the hd itself failed and is dead.

He said the master HDD failed, and the music was on the slave.

Wouldn't it be possible to just remove the primary HDD from the boot list, boot from an external drive and just transfer the files from there?

Posted by Dervish on Jan-07-2008 00:04:

You do get em. http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx...8965&doy=search

Posted by gehzumteufel on Jan-07-2008 04:02:

Re: Re: Re: Internal HDD --> external (USB?)

quote:
Originally posted by Project-K
He said the master HDD failed, and the music was on the slave.

Wouldn't it be possible to just remove the primary HDD from the boot list, boot from an external drive and just transfer the files from there?

oops on that first note

but yes it is possible and very easy too!

Posted by nekholm on Jan-07-2008 18:56:

Allright, I found some. The cheapest is only 15,90�, and looks like this:

The most expensive is 43,90�, but I think the cheap one will do. After all, it's just for one time.

By the way, does it get it's power from the USB or what?

Posted by shaw on Jan-07-2008 19:13:

it's called an enclosure (at least the proper ones are--remember, you need to have something holding it...). they usually run around $40-$50 US.

Posted by nekholm on Feb-02-2008 12:20:

Well I finally got one, but I can't get it working

I've connected everything ok, I put it on, the harddrive buzzes, but it's nowhere to be found. I'm running Vista, and I tried mom's old computer with Win2000 on, it "found new hardware" and installed the drivers, but it still won't find it It shows the "safe removal" icon in the taskbar, but it won't display the harddrive.

I then checked the device manager, and it said that the device cannot be started, so now I'm like WTF? What the hell do I do now?

I thought the harddrive might have died for whatever reason, but since I can hear it buzz I thought it might work after all. But no..

Posted by gehzumteufel on Feb-02-2008 17:46:

quote:
Originally posted by nekholm
Well I finally got one, but I can't get it working

I've connected everything ok, I put it on, the harddrive buzzes, but it's nowhere to be found. I'm running Vista, and I tried mom's old computer with Win2000 on, it "found new hardware" and installed the drivers, but it still won't find it It shows the "safe removal" icon in the taskbar, but it won't display the harddrive.

I then checked the device manager, and it said that the device cannot be started, so now I'm like WTF? What the hell do I do now?

I thought the harddrive might have died for whatever reason, but since I can hear it buzz I thought it might work after all. But no..

try to reinstall the driver. sometimes that works.

also try restarting if you havent already.

Posted by biznology on Feb-02-2008 21:42:

as someone kind of mentioned, even if your new mobo runs scsi hard drives, there is usually still an IDE slot for dvd or cd drives. you can plug the old drive in there, after setting it to slave, and then go into the computer bios, usually you hold 'del' while the computer is rebooting - and you can change where it will look for drives, etc.

its entirely possible to have two types of HD on the new computer|