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by skimmer128 1 view

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Hi,
About 3 years ago I had a Compaq presario V2000 Laptop and the AC plug-in adapter for the MOBO failed on me ( I guess since it was a plastic piece it could not be re mounted, so I would have had to buy a new MOBO said the tech guy) Anyway I Purchased a DELL XPS 210 instead and went for the desktop life.. Basically what I am asking is how I would be able to use my laptops HD on my Desktop? I bought a thing you can mount your old Laptop HD in and plug into a Desktop via USB but it wont allow me to access my documents since my old laptop HD was password protected (at the windows start-up screen):( I can really care less about most of the stuff on it except for the over 400 pictures I have from my entire NAVY enlistment that are stored on that HD I would really like to snag these memories without having to find someone with a compaq desktop to plug it into.

The Laptop HD is the old kind with all the pins
and the Desktop is the new kind with the SATA or whatever its called so I cant actually plug it into my desktop and start up like that

Any information about how to access this HD would be awesome.. thanks in advance

Matt

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by oh smeg

If you are getting the Permission Message it is just a matter of Taking Ownership of the Files so the above answer is all that is required.

But if you can not even see the drive it needs to have it's Jumper Altered to allow the new computer to see it. This is a Plastic Covered bit of Copper that goes on 2 of the Pins on the back of the drive. This should be set to Master so look at the Sticker on the HDD and set the Jumper Accordingly. If there is a Jumper on this Drive and it is set to Master and it still doesn't work you need to remove the Jumper and plug it back into the Adapter and try again.

With different HDD there are a range of Different settings required and quite often it's just a matter of Trial & Error till you get it working.

However you need to know that with these USB Adapters you should not leave the Drive running all of the time just plug them in and use them when they are needed and [b]Always[/b] use the Safely Remove Option before unplugging the HDD and [b]Never[/b] just turn off the computer as that doesn't close the HDD properly and will allow the drive to become corrupted. After unplugging through the [b]Safely Remove Option[/b] you need to allow the drive time to spin down and the Platters stop spinning before you touch the drive. If you do not do this the likelihood of you damaging the drive and never being able to recover any Data off it again are far greater.

Col

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