Dean, that's an original suggestion. But laptop drives don't have ribbon connectors, 'least not any I've seen. Laptop drives slide into a kind of docking plug that contains the data and power pins.
As I said, my first idea was to remove the laptop drive and slave it to another system, but the major obstacle to that course of action was that I couldn't see how to get it out of the laptop.
However, I got it out eventually and that solved the problem.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Kiley
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Laptop file retrieval problem
This may sound a bit elementary, but is there a possibility of getting the
two machines close enough together to simply cross connect the IDE ribbon
and power cable from the good machine to the bad one and boot the machine to
recover the files? Obviously you would need to change the jumper temporarily
to "slave" but if you can't remove it, do you have room to at least modify
it to perform such a recovery?
Just a thought...
Dean Kiley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
The customer would like to have some important jpg's retrieved.
Here's the curly bit: All the 20 or so jpg's I want to retrieve are over
1.4Mb so I can't copy them to floppy. All of them are over 2mb's.
I considered pulling out the HDD and slaving it to another system, but I'm
durned if I can see how to remove it, short of gutting the machine
completely, so that's out.
If anyone can think of another way I can do this retrieval job, I'd much
appreciate it.
TX
Ian Porter
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