Re: Data recovery

Peter Hood tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:

In message <2020290.euhG9CCxez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, FrozenNorth
<frozennorth123@xxxxxxxxx> writes
Peter Hood tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:

In message <2081107.94lJzm9yGh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, FrozenNorth
<frozennorth123@xxxxxxxxx> writes
Peter Hood tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:

In message <5167367.IHd39LpF1n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, FrozenNorth
<frozennorth123@xxxxxxxxx> writes
Peter Hood tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:

For the first time in some five or six years of dropping by, I
finally have a genuine problem for which I'd like help, although I'm
searching for a solution on the web.

A friend of mine who is an author has a problem; his portable
machine won't boot up, and his work wasn't backed up. It seems that
nothing happens when he presses the power switch. It cut out on him
earlier today.

It appears to be a power problem of some sort, rather than the
drive. So I wondered, is it possible to take the drives out of these
things and hook them up using a USB conversion kit?

I don't yet know what make and model it is, but assume that drives
are fairly standard, as with desktop machines.

Any help appreciated.

It should work, my wife's old lime green iMac crapped out, got a
IDE/USB case, and plugged it into a new Intel iMAc, the drive came
right up along
with all her data. If that will work a PC should do the same, as long
as it wasn't encrypted.

You could plug it is as a slave drive in another box, using the
existing as
the IDE master, if that works you should be good to go. It won't hurt
the data to try it.

Hey thanks. I think I found another similar solution slaving it off
the IDE drive ribbon but, anyhow, it's good to feel in charge.

That is what my second paragraph was hinting at.

Ah gotcha. I felt a bit jittery, and was after confirmation that I
wasn't making a grave error with someone else's kit.

About five dollars for this:

http://www.aria.co.uk/productinfocomm.asp?id=8349


It reminds me of working on engines. I never trust anything to a
mechanic or technician if I can help it.

Guess you drive an older car, I can't recognize anything under the hood
anymore.

Car? Hmm. I prefer 2 cylinders and 2 wheels, although Triumph have built
a nice little 3 cylinder runabout for shopping and other local trips:

They are pretty much useless here in winter, but I'm not sure if/when
winter
will arrive here this year. No sign of a white Christmas.

If we got traditional English winters it wouldn't work here either.
Sadly frost causes surprise here these days. Some species have migrated
150 km north. That's how much the weather has changed.

We still got dusk at 3.30 today though. :-0

Small wonder people in the arctic circle have a high depression rate.

What was that humorous Canadian series called... ...they wore visors
with light bulbs in to stave off depression, and then got hooked on
them. Tongue in cheek of course.

Sounds like a Red Green thing, but it doesn't ring any bells here.

--
Q: Are we not men?
A: We are Vaxen.

Froz...
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