Thread: Ok PC Guys

Here's one for PC people.

My PC's power supply took a crap and brought the motherboard with it.
Now, I have a lot of important stuff on my 'C' drive that I need.
What is the best way to retrieve that info?
Can I put tha drive into an enclosure and make it an external drive?

Thanks for the help.

As long as your "C" Drive wasn't fried with the motherboard, you should be able to connect it to any other functional PC and retrieve the data.
The OS should automatically recognize it as another drive (XP does).

depending on the OS and your boss on the back there should be some pins.
If your going to plug the drive into
another computer you will need to take and look at were the power goes in on the back of the hard drive
from old pc.
There should be some pins with a
little black sometimes blue piece. Thats called a jumper.
To get to to work right in a
2 drive system you will need to change the jumper setting from master to
slave.
Tweezer works great.
Soem hard drives will have the

jumper setting printed on it other will have it on there website.
Make sure when taking the case apart you dont use any magnetic tip screw drivers the computer is off.
and the power supply is
unplugged from
the surge protector..
This can earse hard drives.
Once you have the case cover off look
for for the grey cord that
goes from your mother board to the hard drive on the cord there should be a
second one plug
in to the hard drive (red strip
goes towars power supply).
The plug in the power to the
HDD.
reput on case,
reconnect power supply and boot up pc.
If your
using a system old then
2000 you may have to change bios settings for it to be recognized.
Once your loaded into windows
and the hdd inst
fried you should be able to get the data back baring both OSes are formatted the same ie
fat32 and fat32.
if on is ntfs file you may get corrupted data or files that wont open

When mine crapped out, I simply took the drive out, changed the jumper to slave, unplugged the ribbon cable & power cord from the new computers CD drive & plugged that into the now slave hard drive.

Then you can explore that drive & retrieve any info you want & click & drag it to the new C: drive

Be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer before opening up the case.

If I can do it with my limited computer knowledge, anyone can.

I just have one of the minions pull the info for me.


By the way Z, they are happy to do it or management cause they think it will get them some sort of pat on the back.
;D

"singersp" wrote:

When mine crapped out, I simply took the drive out, changed the jumper to slave, unplugged the ribbon cable & power cord from the new computers CD drive & plugged that into the now slave hard drive.

Then you can explore that drive & retrieve any info you want & click & drag it to the new C: drive

Be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer before opening up the case.

If I can do it with my limited computer knowledge, anyone can.

That is the easiest and safest approach.. additionally, I leave a second harddrive on my PC as a redundant storage center for the important files. Cheap protection.

Sweet!
Ya, I know how to set the jumpers and install hard drives.

Thanks guys

"pack93z" wrote:

"singersp" wrote:

When mine crapped out, I simply took the drive out, changed the jumper to slave, unplugged the ribbon cable & power cord from the new computers CD drive & plugged that into the now slave hard drive.

Then you can explore that drive & retrieve any info you want & click & drag it to the new C: drive

Be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer before opening up the case.

If I can do it with my limited computer knowledge, anyone can.

That is the easiest and safest approach.. additionally, I leave a second harddrive on my PC as a redundant storage center for the important files. Cheap protection.

Absolutely!
After losing not one, but two drives worth of data I bought an external drive for use in auto backup.

"PacNWVike" wrote:

"pack93z" wrote:

"singersp" wrote:

When mine crapped out, I simply took the drive out, changed the jumper to slave, unplugged the ribbon cable & power cord from the new computers CD drive & plugged that into the now slave hard drive.

Then you can explore that drive & retrieve any info you want & click & drag it to the new C: drive

Be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer before opening up the case.

If I can do it with my limited computer knowledge, anyone can.

That is the easiest and safest approach.. additionally, I leave a second harddrive on my PC as a redundant storage center for the important files. Cheap protection.

Absolutely!
After losing not one, but two drives worth of data I bought an external drive for use in auto backup.

Can you set it to auto backup whenever you want?

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

"PacNWVike" wrote:

"pack93z" wrote:

"singersp" wrote:

When mine crapped out, I simply took the drive out, changed the jumper to slave, unplugged the ribbon cable & power cord from the new computers CD drive & plugged that into the now slave hard drive.

Then you can explore that drive & retrieve any info you want & click & drag it to the new C: drive

Be sure to unplug the power cord from the computer before opening up the case.

If I can do it with my limited computer knowledge, anyone can.

That is the easiest and safest approach.. additionally, I leave a second harddrive on my PC as a redundant storage center for the important files. Cheap protection.

Absolutely!
After losing not one, but two drives worth of data I bought an external drive for use in auto backup.

Can you set it to auto backup whenever you want?

If you use the right software.
I'm using Norton 360, which includes automatic back-up of your files whenever your computer is inactive.
I'm sure Webby and some of the other cyber guys could clue you into cheaper/better programs, but this is what I use.
It also includes virus protectection, PC tune-up, etc.
A lot of bells and whistles that sound cool to a cyber dummy like me!
How about it Webby????
What should Ultra use?