Archie
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My pc died a few years ago, but i kept the hard drive.
Bought an external hard drive case so i could use it still.
Tonight i plugged it in and it started smoking so i turned it off, took it to my mates amd we plugged the drive into his PC.
Says theres an error or whatever.
How can the stuff be extracted from it, as i have a lot of pictures and music on it, lots of memories and nostalgia on it that means a lot to me.
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adiohead
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Does the PC register the drive? If it does then you may be able to run something like Ubuntu and copy the data over.
when my iMac's HD failed I got a SATA to usb cable and I managed to copy the data from it without much trouble.
I tried my casing first too but it wouldn't work either.
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Archie
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It was showing up as a secondary drive but said something like 'Secondary drive failure'
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adiohead
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did you set the jumpers to slave?
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Steve
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or cable select
if you can get windows to see the drive but parts are corrupt try recuva
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Cavey
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If it's seeing it, have a go with GetDataBack, worked well for me when my hdd got corrupt. (see related links below)
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Archie
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Adiohead, you have lost me my friend.
I will have a look at these programs then.
Even if i can only recover my pictures i'd be happy enough with that, my music can mostly be replaced from my mates computers.
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Nismo
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thread hijack...
I have a drive at home thats got lots of old stuff on, Windows doesnt see it...
What are my options?
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Archie
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Drives not being recognised now 
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adiohead
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set the jumpers to slave.
what is the drive?
[Edited on 08-12-2010 by adiohead]
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Archie
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What are the 'jumpers'
Pardon my ignorance
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adiohead
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can depend on the drive, but:
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Archie
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That means nothing to me:/
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Sam
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On that pic adiohead posted, the 4 pins on the right are where the power cable goes into. To the left of that connector is two rows of small pins.
A "jumper" is like a tiny little plastic thing that covers two pins and is so small you normally need a pair of tweezers or something to extract it off the pins.
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Archie
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I cant see anything covering any pins.
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Archie
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No jumpers ?
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John
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Already set as slave then.
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Archie
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It was the only HD in my computer though ?
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John
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Would still work fine as slave depending how everything else was configured.
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Archie
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Confusing as fuck.
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