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[Zeth MelGair]

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Who can tell me how to hook up a old hard drive to new computer to try and retrieve information?

And with windows xp on the old one and vista on the new one is it possible.
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[Jonathan Strathmore]

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Are they SATA? Give us a little more information on the drives, and the build? Should be perfectly possible if everything checks out OK.

[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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I was able to put my old XP pc on a network with my new Vista and transfer files that way.

[Zeth MelGair]

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Yeah I remember that Cein but I only have the one computer most of the other one is trash, I am hoping that the hard drive was not messed up beyond getting some stuff off of it.

Jon I have no Idea what SATA is

I can tell you my new computer runs vista 64- bit which I am sure my old one wasnt 64-bit will that make a difference.
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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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You need to speak with the Almighty Halister, god of computers.

[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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i do data recover for people all the time. i just got done doing this actually.

depending on the operating system on the new and old hard drive, here are some things that can help you.



this is a sata to usb adapter, it can do wonders, but it can also simply not work.

however for my last job this diddnt work. i actually had to build a 1999 style computer, motherboard, processor, all old parts, on the floor out of the case and gather the information he needed an send it via email.

i really gotta crap, peace.
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[Zeth MelGair]

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well the old one is windows XP the new one is windows Vista
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[Sir Robert]

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Unfortunately it does not help to know which OS you are running, we need the hardware info of the Harddrives.

There are different ways to connect the Hard drive so to say.
We need to know which it is.
Can you tell us what is writting on the harddrive that you want to recover. Maker, model number, etc.
Or, even better, take a picture of the connection port side with a camera and post the picture, or send the picture via email to someone here.

When you look at the harddrive, does the print on it mention either SATA,
IDE, E-IDE or SCSI?
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[Zeth MelGair]

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ok the old one I need the info off of is a westernDitital hard drive. ok I cant find on it anywhere letters like you where asking for
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[Zeth MelGair]

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ok the old hard drive is

western digital 160 gb
mdl # wd1600BB
interface EIDE 100mb/s


New hard drive
unknown
unknown
500 gb SATA-11 3.o gb/s

any suggestions
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[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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your going to have to do one of two things. but the device listed above that i showed you earlier. or grab spare parts and build a computer with that harddrive as primary and take the info off with a flash drive or email.

like this


this is how i helped my last guy
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[Zeth MelGair]

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ok thanks I got it covered now figured it out.

Cear I was looking at that pic of the computer you built on the floor know what most of it is but what is the tape despenser for, That is a desk tape despencer isnt it, sitting on top of it
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[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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the heatsink for the processor fit on a computer made in the stone age and diddnt actually fit on this one at all, so not only did it not fit but the voltage standarder were a decade off so i had to put the paperweight tape thing there to keep it from flying off the motherboard and keep the cpu cool.
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