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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dicer, Jul 28, 2008.

  1. dicer

    dicer Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have a fairly old compaq presario 2500 notebook which held all my photos, they were supposed to be backed up to an external hard-drive. somehow, all but one file of pictures were stored to this external hard-drive and typically, the notebook crashed and i ended up having to take it to a repairers. the repairer advised i have a new hard-drive fitted and confident that everything i needed was backed up i told him to go ahead a fit one. when i went to reload the pics from the hard-drive on i noticed the one file with all photos of a recent visit by my parents (i only see them every couple of years due to us living different sides of the planet) was missing. typical. is there anyway at all of me trying to recover this information from the old hard-drive that was returned to me in a small plastic envelope by the repairers. hope this all makes sense. regards. diane
     
    dicer, Jul 28, 2008
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  2. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    By an external enclosure and assuming no problem with HDD should be able to pull from it?
     
    powerpack, Jul 28, 2008
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  3. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    You can also get something like this:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152

    Just plug your old harddrive to it and plug it in a USB port on your laptop. If your old harddrive is still readable, you shouldn't have any problem recovering it. Before buying any of these adapters, you should ask the repairer what's wrong with the old harddrive that needed to be replaced.

    :)
     
    stewie, Jul 28, 2008
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  4. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    ^ + you can get generic cables from ebay - much cheaper and they work.... :p
     
    Andy, Jul 28, 2008
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