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Answer» Hello there.
First off, it is great to be on this forum and hopefully I will get the answers to my problems. Also just to let you know, I am not so computer technical so please bare with me and my lack of terminology.
I have a couple of old hard drives from my old PCs that have all stopped working in different ways and I want to get some of the data like pictures, videos and documents off of them if possible. One of the drives lost the boot drive so it wouldn't boot into windows anymore. Another drive got dropped so that might just be completely dead and the third drive I'm not so sure if that is broken. The computer just stopped working one day.
Anyway. The hard drive are the same as the one in the picture below not to sure what size it maybe 2.5"...
I have brought a SATA to usb cable adapter/connector. I'm also not to sure so there will be a picture of that below also.
Any help would be greatly appreciated guys!!
Sorry about the size of the images i don't know how to make them smaller either....
Thank you!Has anybody any idea?The drive you show is an older style called "IDE" which is a 40 pin connector.
To convert it to USB, you may need both the adapter and a power supply. You can buy a kit with both items included. Having the external power supply means yu don't have to open up the computer to fish out a power connector.
The kit used to be in Walmart, but it is going out of demand. Still, you can ASK if they will get it for you. Or try Amazon. Or Newegg.
Search for:
USB 2.0 to External IDE SATA Converter Cable HDD Kit with AC Power Adapter
From Newegg:
External IDE SATA Converter Cable HDD Kit
Expect to pay under $25 plus shipping.
It is hard to say if you will be able to recover data.
[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]I have this same IDE / USB kit and the cool thing is that laptop IDE HDD's are powered off the the USB port of the computer that you connect them to. The external power supply they give you is only needed for desktop IDE hard drives. The one I bought handles both IDE and SATA drives to connect via USB.
Sadly this only works for Hard Drives. I tried making an External DVD Rom using it to connect over USB and it doesnt support making an external DVD Rom when connecting to DVD Rom for a desktop and connecting to USB and powering it with external power supply. The DVD Rom would light up as its powered and spin up a disc that is inserted into the TRAY, but the computer did not see this drive and so the IDE to USB chip in this can only handle Hard Drives on the one I have.DaveLembke,
At one time I did get a DVD drive to work with the USB / IDE kit.
I Think your issue is the power supply. The little PSU they include just can not RUN a DVD drive at full speed.
Quote DaveLembke,
At one time I did get a DVD drive to work with the USB / IDE kit.
I Think your issue is the power supply. The little PSU they include just can not run a DVD drive at full speed.
hmmm I would think a HDD would draw more power. I even tried the different jumper positions ( Master, Slave, Cable Select ) for the drive as well as tried 2 other drives and got same RESULT. I was thinking it was the chipset thats in the converter had to address a HDD and didnt know how to handle a optical drive.Just now I tried it with an old adapter I have had for awhile.
Using an older DVD.CD ROM drive it CAME up in Windows XP and was recognized as a CD/DVD ROM.
The jumper was set to CS, cable select. Not sure if that matters.
To my knowledge, these cheep adapter kits work with all current and past hard drives and DVD drives.
Another link:
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW
Screen shot below shows that they say it works on almost every thing.
It says only one in stack. But there are other vendors that have it or the same thing.
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Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 03, 2017, 10:10:14 AMThe drive you show is an older style called "IDE" which is a 40 pin connector.
To convert it to USB, you may need both the adapter and a power supply. You can buy a kit with both items included. Having the external power supply means yu don't have to open up the computer to fish out a power connector.
The kit used to be in Walmart, but it is going out of demand. Still, you can ask if they will get it for you. Or try Amazon. Or Newegg.
Search for:
USB 2.0 to External IDE SATA Converter Cable HDD Kit with AC Power Adapter
From Newegg:
External IDE SATA Converter Cable HDD Kit
Expect to pay under $25 plus shipping.
It is hard to say if you will be able to recover data.
Alright. Thank you so much for that. I'll give it a try.
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