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 · 4 answers · asked by wes h 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
2006-06-21 08:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no im only 14 and i put im my hardrive and istalled windowsd into and yah ive fixed my pc my slef so no i dont htink it would and im mot sure but i dont know if there alowed to do that bescease its not mandatory to mkae backups so u can get ur waranty to change it not sure though theres a 50/50 im wrong maybe 30/50 lol well yah if there was a surge its a small chance that ur harddrive survived the chock because the disks inside it most likley got fried menaing your data is gone and dead forever or maybe not if i was you i would spend that money trying to get a new hd or just paty the damn guy to get u r back ups
2006-06-21 08:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by kickenchicken360 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well now a days to install an external hard drive you dont have to be a professional. Its all plug and paly and windows detects it automatically. All you may have to do is to install the driver and thats it ...
2006-06-21 08:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by Mudassar K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Installing the hard drive is the eay part. Imaging is the hard part.
2006-06-21 08:23:06 · answer #4 · answered by EJU006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋