Hard Drive Problem

memofjmmemofjm
edited August 2005 in Hardware
I started my old laptop (3 years old) after a month in the closet. It went black and said "Operating System Not Found"

I decided that the best thing to do is to just try and recover my files on my hard drive (hoping that the hard drive was not corrupt). So I detached the hard drive and put it in a 2.5" enclosure to connect to my desktop. Now my desktop cant see the hard drive that I just attached to it using a USB port. What can I do to get my files?

-crying myself to sleep in MD
:bawling:

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    Is the drive spinning?

    You might try a 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter and see if that makes a difference.

    Good luck. :)
  • memofjmmemofjm
    edited August 2005
    Prof-

    THank you for the response. THe drive is making a clicking noise when I connect it to the desktop. It does that for awhile and then stops and the green light on the enclosure turns off. I am using a 2.5" now. Will the hard drive fit into a 3.5"?

    -still crying in MD but with some hope
    :confused:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    memofjm wrote:
    ...Will the hard drive fit into a 3.5"?...
    For four bucks it will.

    The clicking part is troublesome. Some drives make a bit of noise under normal conditions, but this often is an indication of drive failure. How critical is the data on the drive to you? If this is stuff you can't live without, I would recommend you stop right now and turn it over to a data recovery specialist. It might be expensive, but the less you do to the drive the better a chance they'll have of getting your stuff back. If you'd really like to get the data back but wouldn't spend a lot to do it there are steps you can try on your own. The first would be to see if the drive is identified in the BIOS of a desktop computer using the adapter I linked to. If you don't want to wait for shipping you should be able to find them at your local computer shop.
    -still crying in MD but with some hope
    :confused:
    Hang in there. It ain't over 'til it's over, as Yogi Berra used to say. :)
  • memofjmmemofjm
    edited August 2005
    Thank you for all your help. I am going to check out the BIOS but it seems I will have to break down and go to Mr. CompUSA to get this data to disk. Thank you again!

    -100 dollars poorer in Maryland
    :shakehead
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