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Call me silly
Whilst extremely busy and trying to help a colleague reformat an external drive I managed to do the silliest thing imaginable. I reformated my Inspiron 8500 C: drive.
I have data recovery software but I need to figure out how to access the drive from another computer without writing anything to the disk.
I took the disk out of the machine but it has a non standard cable connection and no apparent place for power.
Are there any secrets to accessing the drive??
Is there anything anyone can suggest to allow me to access the drive???
Thanks in Advance
Grant
Silly! You need an 2.5 inch drive adapter to hang the drive on a standard 3.5 inch ide cable here,
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=294956&pfp=BROWSE
or an usb adapter here
http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10502969 free shipping also
P.S. power is supplied thru the ide cable
jmwills
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Posted August 19th, 2005 12:00
At one time I had a device that would allows you to connect a notebook hard drive to another laptop via the PCMCIA slot but for the life of me I can not rememebr the name, but I'm sure Google will turn up something.
Here's a start:
http://www.baber.com/cases/drive_enclosures/single_bay.htm