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Laptop HDD crashed, no OS found

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by orionx

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Okay, I've tried hooking up a 2.5" IDE to USB but the drive wouldn't detect on my desktop. I've also removed a HDD from a working laptop and put in mine but it was a no go. I'm thinking a possible system file was deleted??? Any ideas?

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by techexec2

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Some thoughts about this:

** If your laptop HDD has crashed, it is not more likely to work in a USB external HDD enclosure than directly in the laptop.

** You might regain access to the HDD via SpinRite (1). I have never used it but have heard good things about it.

** Sometimes a 2.5" USB external HDD does not get enough power from the USB port itself and requires an external power supply to operate.

** Have you ever successfully used your USB external HDD enclosure with another HDD before? Perhaps it is defective?

Good luck!

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(1) SpinRite
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

by orionx

This is beginning to sound more and more like a HDD failure. The cable is brand new and I've used it a couple time already and it says that it doesn't require a power source because the USB supplies it. How will I use SpinRite if I can't even start up the HDD itself? Any other ideas?

by deepsand

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

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