Hello.
My friend gave me a supposedly dead laptop HDD to retrieve data from. I ordered the 2.5'' to 3.5'' IDE Adapter I needed and I am ready to go.
I connected everything and as soon as I turned on my desktop PC, I felt the laptop HDD vibrating in my hands (which means power is going to it) followed by a series of ticking noises (like tapping the tip of your fingernail on wood). I knew this was not good...
So I went into the BIOS and the laptop HDD was recognized as the Primary IDE Slave and my regular SATA HDD was set as SATA 1 and the one to boot off of. Perfect right?
Exiting the BIOS, the Windows XP loading screen appears, loads Windows and after the Boot Screen disappears, a blank screen shows up. I waited about 3 minutes for any action to appear before I determined it was not going to boot fully into Windows.
Hoping that my SATA HDD was not damaged, I powered down, unplugged the IDE HDD and booted up normally to write this message...
I have double and triple checked my connections from the laptop HDD to the motherboard and power is flowing to it fine.
For some reason the laptop HDD is causing my SATA not to fully boot. I have also tried booting into safe mode with no avail.
So is my friends laptop HDD dead? Is there any way to retrieve the data she wants off of it? I don't know so I am asking here for anyone who has any potential knowledge about this topic to respond.
PC SYSTEM SPECS
AMD Athlon 64x2 6400+ Black Edition
ASUS Crosshair Mainboard
4x1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 800Mhz RAM
Radeon HD 4870
Antec Earthwatts 650W
LAPTOP HDD SPECS
Brand: Hitachi
Model: IC25N060ATMR04-0
Size: 60GB
Connection Type: ATA/IDE
Thank you very much,
Brandon
My friend gave me a supposedly dead laptop HDD to retrieve data from. I ordered the 2.5'' to 3.5'' IDE Adapter I needed and I am ready to go.
I connected everything and as soon as I turned on my desktop PC, I felt the laptop HDD vibrating in my hands (which means power is going to it) followed by a series of ticking noises (like tapping the tip of your fingernail on wood). I knew this was not good...
So I went into the BIOS and the laptop HDD was recognized as the Primary IDE Slave and my regular SATA HDD was set as SATA 1 and the one to boot off of. Perfect right?
Exiting the BIOS, the Windows XP loading screen appears, loads Windows and after the Boot Screen disappears, a blank screen shows up. I waited about 3 minutes for any action to appear before I determined it was not going to boot fully into Windows.
Hoping that my SATA HDD was not damaged, I powered down, unplugged the IDE HDD and booted up normally to write this message...
I have double and triple checked my connections from the laptop HDD to the motherboard and power is flowing to it fine.
For some reason the laptop HDD is causing my SATA not to fully boot. I have also tried booting into safe mode with no avail.
So is my friends laptop HDD dead? Is there any way to retrieve the data she wants off of it? I don't know so I am asking here for anyone who has any potential knowledge about this topic to respond.
PC SYSTEM SPECS
AMD Athlon 64x2 6400+ Black Edition
ASUS Crosshair Mainboard
4x1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 800Mhz RAM
Radeon HD 4870
Antec Earthwatts 650W
LAPTOP HDD SPECS
Brand: Hitachi
Model: IC25N060ATMR04-0
Size: 60GB
Connection Type: ATA/IDE
Thank you very much,
Brandon