How do I connect the drive through USB? My drive is the IDE type




On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 06:53:23 -0600, "Mark Tretter"
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> Have you tried putting it on a separate drive cable?  Some hard drives
> won't 
> work well with others.  You can try putting the drive in an external 
> enclosure and connect it via USB to the tower.  As a last resort, you can 
> also put the hard drive in a airtight bag in a freezer for several hours
> to 
> overnight to prevent the seizing of the heads, at least until it warms up 
> (which happens quickly)!!  Have the temporary setup ready to go before
> you 
> take it out of the freezer.  I have also heard that a sharp rap on a
> solid 
> surface will free up the heads, although I haven't had any luck with
> that. 
> I have retrieved data from several 40 Gig DeskStars with the freezer
> method, 
> as wacky as it seems.  Good Luck!
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> From: "chipo chika" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:15 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive failure
> 
> 
> >A hard drive on my collegue's pc has crashed. I am tring to help him
> > salvage data from the hard drive. The current situation is that I have
> > slaved the drive on my pc and the good news is that the drive is
> > recognised during post. But on the other hand the drive is not bieng
> > recognised once the OS is loaded. For some jumper combinations the drive
> > is being recognised during post and just before windows loads a blue
> > screen shows up briefly and the pc restarts. Is ther any way of getting
> > around this problem or any free software to boot the system with and
> > have a go at the drive? The drive is IBM deskstar, Win XP
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