My PC was zapped dring a thunderstorm and I had to get a new one. I decided to get an acer 4200 laptop. I asked the technician the above question and he gave me this chunk of stuff he unscrewed from the old PC and a USB box. I connected this with the new PC but nothing came up and I couldn't see any way of connecting it with the thing from the old PC. What else do I need to do?
2007-06-17 18:58:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I think the "chunk of stuff" he gave you was the old hard drive from your deceased computer and he's handed you a drive caddy to put it in.
If you're not confident, go back and ask him, but the idea is you fit the hard drive into the caddy (connecting it up inside). When you plug the caddy into your new machine it should appear in My Computer as an extra drive and if you're lucky it still contains your files.
It's possible, of course, that the lightning strike has b*ggered it.
You do use a surge protector, son't you?
2007-06-18 01:35:18 · answer #1 · answered by champer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to take your old hard drive out and bring it to a friend's house who has a working PC and conect it to their PC. On the back of the Hard drive where the long thin cable connects and where the power supply cable connects are about eight pins and a little piece of plastic covering two of the pins. This is where the hard drive tells the computer that it is connected to if it is a "master" or "slave" and then there is "primary master, secondary master, primary slave, secondary slave" and then there is "auto detect." Your drive is most likely set as a "master." If you want to connect it to a computer as a 2nd HD, then you need to figure out where the little plastic piece goes to make it a "slave." Then you have to hit the "delete" key as the PC starts up and go into the bios to tell the bios that there is now another HD connected to the computer. If you already did this and it still doesn't work, whatever destroyed your computer in the 1st place may have also fried your HD. Have you tried taking it to "Geek Squad?" They can test your HD and extract the info from it if it still works, but I don't know how much they are going to charge you to do this.
2007-06-17 19:26:19 · answer #2 · answered by Cub_Fanatic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Xamanator, I'd like to help, but a "chunk of stuff from the old PC and a USB box" really doesn't say much...
Is it the old HD that he gave you with an external USB hard drive enclosure? Hard to say what else you may need.
If he did give you the old HD, simply Google search 'adding a second hard drive', and you will get some awesome tutorials, some even with pictures/diagrams. It's really quite simple, if that is the case.
Cheers
2007-06-17 19:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hard to say without looking at what you actually have. I'd say he gave you the old hardrive with a external Hard drive.
If so you need to transfer all fro the old drive to the external, then from the external to your new one.
Google it and it will help, or call that guy and ask him!
Personally If i had just bought a new laptop and the salesman "gave me a chunk of stuff" without explaining what to do I would ask for a refund as that is very, very poor customer service.
2007-06-17 19:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go back and ask the geek that took the stuff out of your old system and ask him what you do next...
going off your statement it is hard to understand what your talking about ....(he gave me this chunk of stuff he unscrewed from the old PC and a USB box.)
2007-06-17 19:10:39 · answer #5 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did he take the old harddrive out and put it into a USB based enclosure? If so you may need to install drivers. Take a look in My Computer you might find it listed as an external drive.
2007-06-17 19:03:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok right click on my computer>mange>disk management>right click on your hard drive(usb) or disk 1>click properties> go to policies and check the box " Enable write caching on the disk" .
Good day.
2007-06-17 19:17:59 · answer #7 · answered by steelers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 20:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋