I have a dell m laptop. You can purchase an external USB enclosure for desktop 3. After that you install your hard drive into the enclosure and connect to the laptop via USB cable included with the enclosure. Most likely you cannot do that. What pins are for power so I can add in the power? Both laptop and Desktop have got Windows XP. When I connect the laptop HD — my Desktop does not see it.
I have an acer aspirer with 80gb HD running xp, and I have a desktop running windows I was just wondering if it was possible for me to do this, and if so do I just plug the cord into the motherboard? Thank you. Also have a Hitachi Travelstar with a strange pin config. It seems to have 44 pins, but is not the typical two row male pin config.
Can someone suggest an adapter? I have a hitachi travelstar and although my PII motherboard recognizes the drive, it will not boot to it. It just gets stuck in a loop with the F8 screen asking how I want to boot, I chose, it restarts and goes back to the F8 screen. I assume your notebook hard drive is the SATA drive you are trying to boot from? You have to boot from a regular hard drive and if there is nothing wrong with your notebook drive it will appear in My Computer.
I can boot to the XP CD and go through the installation, but that is not what I want to do with this drive. The drive seems to have failed, but I am not posative that is what the deal is. I have tried to hook into a desktop via mainboard SATA connectors and everything seems fine. Drivers are installed, device is working properly, and XP gives it a new drive letter and recognizes it as an alternate drive in my computer. When I try to open the drive XP tells me it isnt formatted…..
I really need the files on this drive. As long as the drive has an OS you can boot to it. I would just boot via the normal primary and access the other drive as a slave or secondary primary drive. Then you can view the contents. Hi everyone,I have a laptop computer that I purchased, the laptop was given to my son he used for a few months and created a password to sing in, now I have the laptop back, but he does not remenber the password, is there a free program that I can used to recover the password he had.
I have a laptop computer that I purchased, the laptop was given to my son he used for a few months and created a password to sing in, now I have the laptop back, but he does not remenber the password, is there a free program that I can used to recover the password he had.
Are you asking about Windows password? Is it Windows XP? Start the laptop and wait until it boots to the login screen. For user name type: administrator Leave the password filed blank. This might work. On some laptops the admin account might be not protected. The drive is probably corrupt and the damage is where the drive keeps track of the files. Windows will repair the drive if it can and immediatly afterward you should remove anything you want to keep to the computers hard drive. You cannot boot a desktop from a laptops drive, they are too disimilar.
Hopes this helps you, helped me about a year ago on a drive i had given up on. I will gladly donate if I can get this Dell Inspiron netbook working again.
I want to restore it to default factory settings but it does not contain an F11 key or a CD drive. All I get on bootup is a black screen because in error alot of system files have been removed. Your lesson about removing hard drive putting into a connector and joining it to my PC is interesting but will this do the job in that will I be able to restore the hard drive sufficiently for it to make the netbook work again?
Good day! If i dont have 40 pins on the laptop hdd, Toshiba tecra, but it described as a slotted, rounded edge male into female slot. I guess you have a SATA hard drive.
If you have a newer system capable of booting from USB, you can always purchase an external hard drive adapter. When I power up the desk top there is no hint that the lap top drive exsists.
I can feel the SATA running but only my desk top drives are detected. Dear, i want to connect my old hard disk to new laptop to pick all old data via usb. Is your old laptop still bootable?
Save data on an external hard drive or USB flash drive and transfer to the new laptop. Really very sad coz all files saved really needed and important to my life. Thanks Ibkhar. HP Pavilion dv series notebooks has a known issue with the graphics card failure. Yes, you can. You can remove the hard drive and use an external USB adapter to hook up your hard drive to another PC or laptop. Is there any way I can remove a hard drive from a laptop and use it as an internal hard drive for my desktop?
My screen broke a couple of months ago and I just got a new desktop, I was wondering if it would be possible to remove my laptop hard drive and use it as an extra hard drive on my PC?
Sure you can. If you have SATA ports available on your desktop, you can plug the 2. You just have to buy a 2. Remove the battery. Do not turn it on. Disassemble the laptop to inspect the damage.
I like PC games too much especially truck driving games. I received one of these IDE laptop to PC adapter, but I cannot tell which way the power leads go the red and black wires connect both ways.
How can I tell which wire goes to which pin? I am afraid if they are switched I will fry the drive. Laptop is not rebooting. I have a laptop which failed to boot up. So I hooked up its hard drive on a desktop pc to reimage.
Yet I found after I moved back the hard drive to laptop, I is not booting up. Did you install OS on the laptop hard drive while it was connected to your PC? You have to install OS on the laptop. First of all, test the laptop hard drive. Connect it as a slave to your PC. After that install HDTune software free for personal use and test the laptop hard drive.
Select the drive you want to test laptop drive , click on Error Scan tab and Start the test do not check Quick Scan. If the hard drive fail test, replace it. If the hard drive pass test, install it into the laptop and reinstall OS. I have a Dell Latitude D It had Window XP.
We also added Window 8. When we booted it would ask for one of two options and worked for both. We kept is over 24 hours. We were advised to buy an enclosure [we have bought Sabrent Model EC-AHDD enclosure] and connect the hard drive and check what is wrong and may be able to fix the problem. We do not know how to make Sabrent enclosure connection to hard disk.
Do we have incorrect enclosure? We want to recover data from the hard drive, if we cannot make it work. Please help! Skip to Main Content. Shoaib February 23, Chris March 15, Dave March 23, Drew May 1, Supernova May 13, Julie July 25, Julie July 26, Greg September 7, Haki Taki December 1, Suggestion December 21, Jon January 16, Rob February 2, Rob February 6, Rob February 12, Rob February 19, Jack April 4, Jack April 11, EL April 15, The power connector is a longer, taller l with a pin connector.
IDE and SATA are different types of interfaces that connect storage devices like hard drives to a computer's system bus. Skip to main content. Shop by category. All Auction Buy it now. View: Gallery view. Connector A. Connector B. Buying format. Free postage. Turn off your laptop and remove the battery of the laptop then unscrew the cover where the hard drive is located. The Enclosure is a plug-and-play device. Attach the 2. Connect the power cable to the desktop computer.
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