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sailajavara
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Hard Disc Recovery

08/31/2010 6:28 AM

Hi.. am using a hard disc removed from a laptop as external Hard disc, which is having local disc and recovery drive. Now my local disc is not accessible (error saying corrupted or not accessible) while the other drive (recovery drive) is working normally and is accessible. How can i get the data in the local drive back?? pls help.. am having important data in that drive. sailaja
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

08/31/2010 11:42 AM

Does the internal drive reappear when the external one is disconnected?

Look into your BIOS settings.

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sailajavara
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/04/2010 4:30 AM

yes. when i connect the external harddisc via USB cable , its showing the 2 drives(laptop drives-recovery & local drive) along with my local drives of my desktop.even when external is disconnected , my local drives remains the same.
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

08/31/2010 11:49 AM

You have not properly instructed your BIOS of the drive swap.
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uninformedLuddite
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

08/31/2010 11:55 PM

I am using the internal 250GB HDD from my notebook(RIP) as an external drive also. Could you explain how you have connected the notebook drive? My ex-notebook drive is SATA II and is connected to a USB port via an adapter made for this purpose.

Are you connected via USB, external SATA port, or a long internal SATA cable that makes it out through a hole in the PC chassis. Any additional data on your setup would be of great assistance to us in our endeavours to assist you.
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/01/2010 5:39 AM

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sailajavara
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/04/2010 4:35 AM

i have connected through an adopter which i purchased for this hard disc. it got an USB connecting cable which i directly connected to my PC. but, since i have not formatted the hard disc, it is having the OS in it and it is shown along with my local drives and not as removable disc.
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uninformedLuddite
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/04/2010 9:56 PM

My ex-notebook drive has two partitions and shows up on my list as I: and J: under normal Hard Disk Drives so this is not abnormal behaviour.

Prior to the USB drive connection what letters appeared under Hard Disk drives(in my the computer screen). How do these assignments appear when you insert the USB drive?

Are you saying your original drive/s become unavailable when the uSB drive is plugged in and that the system is then booting from the USB drive? Or do the local drives become unavailable after you plug in the USb drive after it has booted from the local drive/s?
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/01/2010 2:55 PM

If the drive you have set as external still has switch set to 'master', they will compete for the irq port. (if your main drive still reads when you disconnect the external) set the external to 'slave' dipswitch.
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uninformedLuddite
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Re: Hard Disc Recovery

09/02/2010 2:35 AM

That is assuming it was taken from an old laptop then? We can't really assume anything without more info and he doesn't seem in too much of a hurry. BTW - Hi
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