I'm no computer wiz - so answer in layman's terms if possible. i had a 200 gig Maxtor 3100 external hard drive that no longer works because i think the power unit burned out. its still under waranty, maxtor will replace if i can show them data recovery was done by a genuine business, regardless of their method. one place would charge me $70 to install the hard drive into my desk top, dump the contents into it (presuming they wern't affected by the surge), and pull it back out. To do this, I have to either burn cds or butmore storage to make room. so i figured i'd use the money i'd pay the tech to buy more storage, and ask my brother (who from self teaching successfully installed disk drives and ram into his own pc) to install the external into my pc, thereby giving me a huge hard drive in my computer and an external for back up. is this possible for a person with general knowledge to do? are there potential complicating factors? could it cause complication down the road?
2006-06-21
08:19:31
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