um, i have a stupid question (NOBODY POINT THAT OUT) but i have two computers. one of them if four years old and is an eMachine. the other is less than a year old and is a Cisnet. i think that the power pack in the eMachine is dead. i KNOW its not the HD. but i wanna try an get some of the stuff off it. can i put that HD in the Cisnet? if i cant, then tell me how to get my stuff off of it. that is, if its even possible to do w/out the eMachine on and functional.
2006-07-10 01:51:13 · 4 answers · asked by Raven 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
oh yeah. theres some stuff that i have no idea on how to do it.
2006-07-10 02:00:49 · update #1
Yes you can. However, if the power supply in the eMachine blew out, it likely took a good deal of components with it. I had a power supply blow out on a eMachine and the result was a fried motherboard, processor, graphics card but the drives came out unscathed, that's not to say that will be your situation but it was mine.
So, just take the drive out of the eMachine and set it as a slave on the Cisnet. Make sure the jumpers are set to Cable Select and on your IDE cables, black is master, grey is slave. You can also get external USB 2.0 enclosures so you could pop your drive into one of those if you do not want to open up the case on either computer.
Okay, just remove the drive from the eMachines and get an external drive enclosure like this one, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817201012 it will have instructions on how to install the drive into it. After you have done that just plug the drive into a USB port (making sure you also connected it to a power source) and Windows will detect it then just take the files off the drive like you normally would.
2006-07-10 01:58:08 · answer #1 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn off the computers first. Take the HD from the broken eMachine. Find the jumpers on the HD and change it to a slave. Put it inside the other computer, leaving your existing Cisnet HD plugged in. Plug in your IDE and power cables to your slave drive, and it should work. You would be able to access the old HD from My Computer. If you are not comfortable with changing/moving computer hardware, take the emachine to a computer shop and let them do it.
2006-07-10 09:00:30 · answer #2 · answered by rath 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can. you need to put the drive into the working machine as a 'slave' drive which is usually set using a device jumper on the back of the drive itself.
then you cna boot up the PC as normal, the drive will appear in 'My Computer' and you should be able to see all of your old files. This may not be possible if the drive in the broken PC was encrypted, but in your case i don't think it will have been.
Good luck
2006-07-10 08:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by JC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You can put an extra hard drive in your CISNET. Did you want to know how?
2006-07-10 08:54:56 · answer #4 · answered by Todd V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋