- Jun 3, 2015
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I want to attempt recovery from a hard drive that has Vista on it (I think the OS is in the hard drive? and no idea if that is even relevant) I am pretty sure I want to get a hard drive enclosure, with a 2.0 USB to plug it in to either my XP desktop, or my Windows 8 desktop.
My big question is, how do I know what size to buy? I keep seeing options of 2.5 , 3.5 and 5 something...what are those measurements of exactly? The whole drive? And if so, the long way, or the short way? Also, I think I need a SATA plug in for the drive, but how do I know for sure it is not IDE, or something else?
And, do most encloses come with a separate power cord? or are they all set-up to power the hard drive thru the USB cord?
Provided I do get the correct enclosure, do I have a solid plan here? My XP computer should be able to open up the Vista drive for me to have a look around, and get what I need off of it?
My big question is, how do I know what size to buy? I keep seeing options of 2.5 , 3.5 and 5 something...what are those measurements of exactly? The whole drive? And if so, the long way, or the short way? Also, I think I need a SATA plug in for the drive, but how do I know for sure it is not IDE, or something else?
And, do most encloses come with a separate power cord? or are they all set-up to power the hard drive thru the USB cord?
Provided I do get the correct enclosure, do I have a solid plan here? My XP computer should be able to open up the Vista drive for me to have a look around, and get what I need off of it?
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