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August 26, 2012 at 7:52 am #2138700
Please help! How can I retrieve my old music library from old Hard drive
Lockedby vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
Can someone PLEASE help me? I am a grad student with little money so I cannot afford to pay anyone for this. My Windows Vista laptop crashed with my full music library on it. There were approximately 1,100 songs and 90% of the music wasn’t purchased through iTunes. I threw away the laptop but removed the hard drive prior. Is there a way ( some device) that I can attach to the old hard drive that I have and remove the old music library? I was just wondering if there is a jump drive BIG enough to handle all that data? If not, what and how? My next issue will be attaching the removed music to my new laptop which is a refurbished iBookG4. I know this is asking alot but I am DESPERATE to not have to try to buy all of this music again.
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August 26, 2012 at 7:52 am #2886921
Clarifications
by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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August 26, 2012 at 8:55 am #2886919
If the iBook has USB ports,
by Wizard57M-TR · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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you can buy an external USB hard drive enclosure, mount your old hard drive in it,
then connect to your iBook USB port. If I remember correctly, Mac OSX can “read”
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August 30, 2012 at 12:21 am #2888161
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by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Thank you soooo much. I see from another reply below, that this might be only about $15. I will try to resolve the issue this weekend. You’re phenomenal!
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August 26, 2012 at 12:57 pm #2886913
If you didn’t encrypt the drive there isn’t a problem
by oh smeg · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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As Wiz said a USB Enclosure or a USB to SATA/IDE Lead will allow you to connect the HDD through a USB Port to your Mac and read it though you may have to take ownership of the Files/Folders and I’m not exactly sure how you would do that using any OSX OS.
http://www.silverstonetek .com/product_storage.php?tno=0&case=c_25external&area=en
http://www.amazon .com/USB-2-0-SATA-Converter-Cable/dp/B0018MCGVU
[i]remember to remove the space from between the domain name and the .com for a working link.[/i]However if you had any form of Encryption of the Windows System you only possibility is to fit that drive to the same Make & Model System and copy the data that you want off it to some form of external storage device unencrypted. When you encrypt the drive you are stooping anyone reading it in anything but the system Model it was originally in.
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August 30, 2012 at 12:22 am #2888160
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by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Thank you soooo much!
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August 27, 2012 at 5:55 am #2886894
Crashed?
by info · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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And you say it ‘crashed’. How so? Usually, it’s corruption or failure of the hard drive itself that causes this. So after you’ve managed to get the drive connected, you may still face a bit of a battle retrieving the files from it.
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August 30, 2012 at 12:22 am #2888159
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August 27, 2012 at 6:33 am #2886891
Once you have the needed cables…
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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If the drive doesn’t work, sometimes throwing it in the fridge or freezer can buy you some life. A friend of mine got his drive to keep working long enough to get most of his files buy wrapping the drive in an ice pack and constantly changing it to keep it cold while it was running.
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August 30, 2012 at 12:23 am #2888158
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by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Wow! I didn’t know this could even be a problem. Thanks for the suggestions
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August 27, 2012 at 8:10 am #2886877
Addendum
by a.portman · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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wizard57m-cnet ‘s solution, (probably the best) is about $15. If by crashed you mean the hard drive stopped working, you have very few (like one) start of the hard drive left, so get everything ready, hook it up and copy everything right then.
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August 30, 2012 at 12:23 am #2888157
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by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Great information! Thank you!
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August 27, 2012 at 9:19 am #2886866
Data recovery
by vik808 · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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I used this program once and it worked pretty good….
Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery for Windows (think it was like $50).It will only work if the drive still functions though.
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August 27, 2012 at 8:31 pm #2886838
retrieve my old music library from old Hard drive
by pmmrozinsky · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Purchase a 2-1/2 external hard drive case. I have three that were made by Mad Dog. They have a USB interface in them on a approx. five inch long by two an one half inch wide circuit board and you hard drive plugs into the header pin socket. There are screw holes in the circuit board to screw to the hard drive, which then slides into the case. The iBook will install it the same as a USB memory stick. You should be able to copy the WAV and MP3 files to the iBook hard drive and when you are done copying the files you can format your old drive in the external case and put the music back on it. You could also have someone with a Windows system copy the music files to DVDs or memory sticks also.
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August 30, 2012 at 12:24 am #2888156
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by vlprn4life · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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THanks for all the great info!
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August 30, 2012 at 1:39 am #2888152
retrieve my old music library from old Hard drive
by paulprivate · about 11 years, 7 months ago
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Download a copy of Hirens Boot CD 15.1 ISO
http://www.softexia.com/hirens-bootcd.html
Burn the ISO to CD (not as a file but as an ‘Image’)
Boot your crashed Windows PC from this Hirens Boot CD.
(set Bios to boot from CD before HD)
On booting from Hirens select ‘Mini XP’ and a Windows XP like environment starts up.
Now just attach a USB stick or drive and copy from the hard drive.
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September 3, 2012 at 7:56 am #2888023
recover music
by maccolar · about 11 years, 6 months ago
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1. Stop write anything to your harddrive,otherwise you will re-write the files and permanently loose your important data.
2. Use some data recovery software like this one. My friends recommend it to me, it works pretty well. And then scan your hard drive with the program, set a destination folder (folder where recovered files will be saved) somewhere on your computer. When the scan was finished, it will return a file list, you can choose the files you want to recover.
http://www.recoverdatamac.com
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September 21, 2012 at 2:52 am #2887649
get an IDE to USB connector
by puma4927 · about 11 years, 6 months ago
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You have to buy IDE to USB connector from a pc store near you using which you can connect your laptop hard disk to any system or laptop having usb ports. After connecting the drive you can access the data in it, if not you can also use data recovery software and scan the drive one good data recovery tool is available to download from http://www.softwaredatarecovery.net/windowsrecovery.html
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October 4, 2012 at 10:27 am #2431497
windows data recovery software.
by mmaster3210 · about 11 years, 5 months ago
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You can try any windows data recovery software.
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