Take the drive out and make a backup image first before doing any repair if the data is important. If you don't know how to do that, suggest you take it to a local repair shop to have it done. It probably take less than an hour to backup whatever you got in there since it's old. The boot...
Goodness 55k hrs!!! Good thing they no longer make parts for you to rebuild it:B
Try Hard Disk Sentinel, it will give you a better idea of what's about to come on your drive. Maybe time to budget for another drive for Windows 10.
It's just a SATA drive in another enclosure. Bad cooling in design or by design. What do you think they now have their own data recovery service and charge a bundle for it.
Just lots of soldering work on the wires with heat shrink tubings. Looks like someone was very jealous that you spent all the time on the machine not him/her, but it got a fair electrical warning with that green live wire cut; lol:B Best bet is try it with another PS if you have a spare one...
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If the Sony has the XP Pro key, and your Dell XP Pro CD is the OEM version, then everything should be fine. Just need to redo the drivers after everything is done. Those can be downloaded online at Sony's support site anyway.
Hehe, thanks, but it's a challenge to get it working and pull the stuff off it. Whether it's a bad drive to start with is not important at this point. Drive has been opened and didn't see anything wrong, I'm suspecting an electrical issue. Question is any insights on testing this thing. I...
Doesn't recognize at all and I have tried different PCs. Anybody know how to test the circuits on this thing or know which resistor to knock off to do a hot connect. Anything that might lead to a solution will be greatly appreciated!
Try a different adapter to see if you get the same problem. If you do, you have a electrical or physical issue to deal with. No software solution will get you around that since you will be dealing problem at the hardware level. If that is the case, PM me if you really want those stuff on it...
Depending on whether you set them up as RAID-0 spanned or RAID-0 striped. Spanned volume = 560GB total space, no performance gain. If one drive got tossed, you have whatever is left on the other drive to recover. Striped set = 480GB total space. Half of the data will be on one drive and the...
Best bet is to open up the casing and check the circuit board on the hard drive to see if there are any blown chips first. The USB external circuit is definitely gone south, but the drive might be good. You will need a T9 bit to remove the 4-5 screws that holds down the circuit board. You can...
You can try booting from the install CD. Just don't try to install or change anything; just a test. If it boots fine, you are likely having bad hard drive. If not, it's likely something else.
It's RAID-0 striped. Have of the data is on one drive and the other half on the other. Just boot up the system and backup the stuff on the RAID first. Then redo the OS. Install the RAID driver. If the OS detects your RAID after the OS installation, you are done. If not, recreate the RAID...
Or get a new hard drive and image the old stuff on the new drive. Then do the upgrade. If you like it after running it for a while, fine. If not, you have your old XP handy to step back. And you can always use the new drive as the data backup drive if the upgrade does not work well as...
The DC power plug is bad, so doing all of this will not help. Will need a good tech to replace the plug, or you can try it yourself. You are likely dealing with taking everything apart; this is where your digital camera might come in handy.
As long as the task was completed, consider kissing your data and say goodbye:( If you happen to stopped it in the middle of the task, some of the files might be current.
Or you can do a sector clone with Ghost and then create a new partition with the remainding free space on the new drive after you got everything working.
It's not going to be a pretty scenario after you did all the improper rebuild attempt. Best is to redo everything for the time shake since you only said it's going to take an hour or two to reenter the data.
Or could be a bad or jammed power switch. Easiest way to test it is to disconnect the power on/power switch cable and use a screw driver to hot start the system to see if you have this issue. If the issue is gone, then you do have a sticky/bad power on switch. You can use the reset switch if...
You are likely looking at the drive being locked at the hardware level. Best is to have a known good local computer shop look at this first to confirm whether it's locked at the hardware level. If it is, you will need the pros to unlock the unit. Another thing you can try is to swap out the...
Thanks, I would like to hear other opinions first cause doing so may be a one way trip and I need to look at something that had been deleted. So long as I can get a clean image of it, I can do the rest of my work. Any other suggestions?
lxskllr's method below works if you are running into the same situation. Big thanks to all of you contributing to this post!
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I need to get this to work as a drive instead of a device so I can create an image of it to look at something else. I have Win98SE, 2000, XP, and Vista machines...
Possibly a stuck moto issue since you said it was making a humming noise. You can basically connect the power connector from the PC and see if it will spin or not. If it does not, it's likely that. If it's spinning and still not detected, it might be something else. Might be still under...
Hardware cloning is not going to be cheap. If you can find an old CSC Pro duplicator for cheap, that may be a way to go, but still around 150+. Others cost 1000+ You can do it cheaper with a floppy drive.
If it still works, you are lucky. I say best thing is to pull everything important off it while you can. If it was off when you drop it, probably the damage is just the casing. But there could be minor internal damages. If you get a problem later on, that will indicate that it did suffered...
It was a dual purpose circuit design that allows the manufacturer to put in either a SATA or PATA interface. Since you are getting SATA, no need to mess with the jumper.
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