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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2009 4:56 am |
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I had an old laptop that finally died...had a lot of photos on it...I took the HD out and bought an external enclosure to put it in...it WILL NOT show up in My Computer...it WILL NOT show up in Disk Management...it WILL,however show up in Device Management...anybody got any suggestions?The old drive came from a Compaq laptop with Windows ME on it...I'm trying to get it to show up on a Vaio with XP Pro on it and a G4 with OSX on it...no dice...I would appreciate any and all suggestions...Merry Christmas to all!
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 23 Dec 2009 11:32 am
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Heya Steve,
Maybe the laptop died because the disk went bad. I would try plugging it into your Mac and then going to Applications/Utilities/ and running Disk Utility and see if it shows up there, if it's formatted so a Mac can read it. Long shot, but you might be able to fix it with Repair Disk.
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Carl Kilmer
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East Central, Illinois
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Posted 23 Dec 2009 2:37 pm
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Hi Steve
If it shows up in Device Management, hopefully the HD is still good.
Does it show a drive letter? If it does try changing it to a different one.
You can right click, then select properties, then tools and error-checking.
If that works, run defrag. Also if the HD has Master, Slave and Cable Select
try changing the jumper from Master to Cable Select. That may be the trick.
Carl
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2009 2:48 pm
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Hi Steve
I... tools and error-checking.
If that works, run defrag.
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If the disk is failing and has only a few minutes left, I would first try to read and copy the files. |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2009 7:42 pm
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Thanks guys...it didn't make it...the drive was bad and only the enclosure was showing up...no biggie tho...just some pictures.Merry Christmas!
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John Cipriano
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San Francisco
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Posted 26 Dec 2009 12:34 pm
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Steve, my teacher Gordon (Titcomb, great guy, call him up if you are in CT or MA) had the same thing happen and I instructed him to use an enclosure. Same deal, saw it in Disk Utility on the Mac but nowhere else. But he was able to use recovery software to get the data back.
I believe he used Data Rescue:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10259/data-rescue |
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 26 Dec 2009 12:46 pm
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Another long shot, that has reputedly worked for at least one person since computers were invented, is to put the hard drive in the freezer overnight and then try it.
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John Cipriano
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Posted 26 Dec 2009 2:38 pm
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| If you do the freezer trick, put it in a freezer bag and try and press all the air out of the bag. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2009 11:24 am
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I have used the frozen hard drive trick often to salvage some data from a drive with bearing failure. Freezing it opens the clearances for up to 10 minutes after you power it on. It is very unreliable, but better that sending it out to Ontrack.
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Steve Norman
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