How do we get the papaer she wrote for class off the hard drive? Can we just disconnect the hard drive from the old computer and connect it to another computer and print it? Or is it more involved than that?
If she were to take it somewhere would it be expensive?
2006-11-29 02:43:11 · 4 answers · asked by girlnoladrea 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It can be easily done by connecting your hard disk to another computer.
1) Turn power off your pc, take out power cord
2) Open the computer case
3) Pull out two cables off the hard disk
4) Use a screw driver to remove screws and take out the hard disk.
5) Take out the small plastic jumper(black or blue) inserted in the pins at the back of hard disk. (It will help the new computer to configure the hard disk as a slave disk) You can put the Jumper back when you put it back on your computer.
Now you will have to turn off power,unplug and open the case of the other computer.
6) Connect the hard disk it to available connector of the data cable. (The broader cable). Insert the power connector at the back of hard disk. Both the cables should be one way insertable.
7) Connect power supply. Turn on the computer.
Press either F1/F2/F7/Delete to enter BIOS settings.
See if the hard disk is detected. If you do not understand BIOS.You can skip this step altogether. On windows XP. the computer should autodetect the new hard disk.
8) Now boot your computer. When you start XP and double click on My Computer you should see the partitions of both the hard disks.
C will be the partition of the hard disk of the Host computer.
D will be the first partition of your hard disk.
E Host Computer's hard disk
F your hard disk. etc
So open each partition to detect your hard disk, and copy the data either on the host computers hard disk, or burn/write it on a cd/dvd.
2006-11-29 03:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the HDD has crashed, the heads have "bounced" onto the HDD's disc surfaces obliterating any files where the heads contacted the disc. Since most drives spin at 8,500 RPM, alot of damage can be done in a very short period of time! If the files you need were where the heads "crashed" into the discs, poof goodbye info! So, putting the drive into another computer may not work. The best thing to do is get a new hard drive and also get an external hard drive to backup to, so this won't happen to you again! To get the backup utility on XP Home, search for "VALUEADD" files, the Microsoft backup utility will be in there(NT Backup).
2006-11-29 03:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reconnecting it to another computer might
help. It depends what's really wrong with that
thing. If the problem has nothing to do with
the drive then yes it should work. Otherwise
it still *might* work. But then you have to connect
it as secondary disk. But wether that works or
not depends on the problem.
If it's expensive or not depends where she's going
to take it. There're professional data recovery
services which charge an arm and a leg. And
probably most people would be glad if they
could pay in arms and legs. If it's a simple
reconnect and copy thing every half literate
computer store should be able to do it. And
it should be affordable.
2006-11-29 02:50:06 · answer #3 · answered by Alex S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try starting it in safe mode and then transfering the file to a disk... if that doesn't work, then yes you can take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer... good luck. x
2006-11-29 02:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by xerocs 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋