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Hard Drive Connections
I've removed my XPS 400 hard drive (nds. OS reinstall) for the purpose of data retrieval upload into another pc.
On the hard drive there was a blue sata cable and a combined group of power cables to the power supply. The sata cable connection to the upload pc looks like a breeze, however, do I need to tie in some how to the power cables? That looks awfull complicated. Thanks for your comments in advance.
Ed
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Posted October 19th, 2007 19:00
zoburn
You need an enclosure similar to this.
Bev.
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Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered.- I have a similar problem. I bought a new Dell w/ SATA HDD's.
I pulled the ATA drives from my old machine (dead MoBo).
Will I be able to simply plug these drives (one at a time of course) into an enclosures described above, and be able to access the files on these drives? There is no RE-formatting required for the drives? --They are currently formatted NTFS.
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Posted October 22nd, 2007 18:00
twobigdog
Yes, you can. Remember to set the ATA/IDE drive's jumpers to the 'Master' Setting.
I've done the exactly the same, with old IDE hard drives and now using one for additional storage and backups, with a Vista system.
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Message Edited by shesagordie on 10-22-2007 03:03 PMshesagordie
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Posted October 22nd, 2007 20:00
twobigdog
Check out the USB 2.0, powered IDE enclosure here.
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Posted October 19th, 2007 17:00
You would need to power the drive in some way. Generally, the easiest method is to get a USB drive enclosure and fit the crashed drive in that, if you are not able to install it in the system you are using to recover the data from it.