Re: data retrieval from a faulty laptop hard drive

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Jim Hollis wrote:
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hello

i need to access the my documents folder of a faulty hitachi laptop
drive. the drive itself does not seem to be recognised in the dell
laptop or in my usb 2.0 enclosure. i have installed a new drive in
the laptop and that seem to be working.

this laptop belongs to an elderly teacher friend of mine. you know
the sort, 75 years old and all of a sudden i get a phone call at 10
pm to say he can not find the mouse cursor on the screen! the files
that need to be retrive would contain various church documents,
essays and dissertation and i think the encyclopaedia judeica or
something along the lines.

not a lot of money is available for this really so if someone could
point me to a programme that i could download the access the drive
through my usb enclosure that would be good. or maybe if some kind
soul wants to do it for free they can keep the faulty hard drive and
i will even throw in another dodgy (only works ocassionally) 17 gig
ibm laptop frive.

please email to my google email service if you are able to help.

thanks in advance.
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I wonder if a laptop drive can be read on an ordinary pc? If so you
could fit the drive as slave on a pc and recover the files that way!

I have a funny feeling you can buy an inexpensive adaptor to fit the
laptop drive to an ordinary ide port and I am sure someone here can
confirm....this might be the easiest way if it IS possible?#

You can do , I have one here.
The problem is that if the laptop doesn't recognise the drive at all ,
neither will a desktop

That seems to be the OP's case. However, when you don't have a spare
laptop to test the suspect drive in (as in the OP's case), a handy
little adapter is a cost effective way to let you test laptop drives
using an ordinary desktop PC.

You can have faults like this where the laptop mainboard is the culprit
rather than the drive (identical fault symptom).

HTH

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