BoredCollie
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I'm trying to transfer data from a hard drive taken out of a laptop,
with Vista installed, to a desktop with XP installed. It's a SATA
(assuming that's the one that doesn't have the grey ribbon) and I have
connected the drive internally using the two required connections. The drive
gets warm but is not recognised in My Computer, the Bios or the Device Manager.
I have also tried connecting it via a caddy to the USB port. By this method, the drive is recognised in the Device manager, but only as 'Mass Storage Device'. It's not recognised in My Computer.
Everything went wrong when the laptop started cutting out because the internal power socket was faulty. Suddenly it decided it wouldn't run the boot sequence or the repair console; rather, it just kept reverting to the beginning at a given point in the sequence. Does this mean that something in the HDD's chipboard has blown?
Can anyone suggest a way of accessing my data?
With thanks in advance.
with Vista installed, to a desktop with XP installed. It's a SATA
(assuming that's the one that doesn't have the grey ribbon) and I have
connected the drive internally using the two required connections. The drive
gets warm but is not recognised in My Computer, the Bios or the Device Manager.
I have also tried connecting it via a caddy to the USB port. By this method, the drive is recognised in the Device manager, but only as 'Mass Storage Device'. It's not recognised in My Computer.
Everything went wrong when the laptop started cutting out because the internal power socket was faulty. Suddenly it decided it wouldn't run the boot sequence or the repair console; rather, it just kept reverting to the beginning at a given point in the sequence. Does this mean that something in the HDD's chipboard has blown?
Can anyone suggest a way of accessing my data?
With thanks in advance.