gilfriend computer smashed, original ranger pics lost!

[bottomshot]

i just recently started a (for me) pretty good series of mods/ upgrades to my ranger that i've been wanting to do for a long time. before i did anything, i took a digital camera, went out to the driveway and took a really good series of "before" pictures from all angles. i really looked forward to comparing them to my finished product.

since i've taken the pictures i spaced the wheels out, redid the exhaust, removed the black strip that was around the truck (ding guard?), painted my old rims, cut the front fenders about 3", and most importantly, went from all terrains to new 31" mud tires. for me this was a lot of stuff, and the most love my truck's seen in the 5 years i've owned it.

the problem is, my girlfriend at some point went to use the digital camera. she needed space or something, so she took my before pictures and put them on her laptop, then deleted them from the camera. that very day, her laptop got smashed. i never had a chance to grab them. as far as i know the hard drive is still intact. the laptop won't boot all the way up; it freezes before it starts to load windows. it makes a really loud grinding/fan noise now. i am pretty good working on computers but know nothing about laptops and my attempts to open it up and look inside failed. i am able to get the hard drive out but don't know what i could do with it as far as getting the pics off.

the laptop is an hp pavilion dv2000. anyone got any ideas?

 

[BeefStew42791]

remove harddrive from old laptop, find working laptop, plug old harddrive in, blammo you (might) be fixed up.

 

[Slim]

remove harddrive from old laptop, find working laptop, plug old harddrive in, blammo you (might) be fixed up.

..... this would work very well if you use an external hard drive enclosure. Make sure you match up if it's a SATA or IEDE drive. I had to do this for my Mom's old PC and one of my laptops and it's worked great!

Bonus - if it works out properly you net a portable HD.

Now hopefully the "really loud grinding/fan noise" isn't the HD unit itself.

Good luck! If it works POST PICS!

 

[bottomshot]

thanks guys. i had thought of the making it into a portable HD thing, but i don't understand how you'd set it up as a usb device. if you didn't, it wouldn't be that portable right? i have never seen a sata in/ usb out cable.

i will try plugging it into my desktop mobo as a secondary drive in a few days here when i get some time to dig up a cable. i'll get those pics up for you guys to check out soon as i can.

 

[97RangerXLT]

x2 on the yanking the harddrive and putting it in an enclosure.

your laptop Harddrive will not directly plug into your desktop motherboard either. Unless you have adapter cables already for that, your best bet (and cheapest) is to get the 20 dollar drive enclosure. be sure it is for the 2.5 inch laptop drives

It is pretty simple, just get the right enclosure for your drive (SATA or EIDE) how to tell? EIDE have 44 pins (two rows of 22 pins stacked on top each other) the SATA drives have far fewer pins, SATA will have two sets of pins side by side separated by a small space. you might be able to get an enclosure that will work for either kind. Some of the EIDE drives might have an adapter pressed onto the pins to connect it to the laptop, this can be removed with gentle prying. The enclosure will come with a USB connector and a small dc power supply so you can plug it into your computer, and your computer will recognize it as removable storage.

hope this helps!

AJ

 

[Jay FX4]

I got a few of these from Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707121

There are cheaper ones, but you need something like this.
It's perfect for turning a former internal hard disk into an external. Simply slap it in the enclosure, plug in your USB, and go. Plug and play.

It's also handy to have for formatting/partitioning a new hard disk that is going to be used internally.

 

[HareRazor]

If you work on computer occasionally, get one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...6102&cm_re=usb_to_sata-_-12-156-102-_-Product
I bought one a couple years ago and it is great. It does the laptop ide, desktop ide, and sata drives. I have hooked cdroms and hard drives both to it with no problem. Most of the time if i am backing up files on a crashed computer I can sneak it into the case and on the hard drive without taking it out of the case and the USB cord is long enough to reach my laptop's usb port.

 

[Jaymz9350]

your laptop Harddrive will not directly plug into your desktop motherboard either. Unless you have adapter cables already for that, your best bet (and cheapest) is to get the 20 dollar drive enclosure. be sure it is for the 2.5 inch laptop drives

AJ

Actually his will. A SATA laptop drive (which from what I can tell his is) has the same connections as a desktop SATA drive. If he has access to a PC with sata connections and a sata cable he can just plug it in like a normal hard drive.

 

[User Name missing]

havent read all the replies, but I too have been looking into the ability to plug a laptop drive into my desktop to see if I can retrieve anything from it. Newegg has alot of options, but one in particular I've been looking at. Its made by Rosewill and you can plug in virtually anything from 2.5 to 5.25, IDE or SATA, and in turn plug it into a PC via USB. It also comes with a copy of rubber protection covers for your drives. It runs about $30 on newegg, but I missed the great deal they had on it which was $20 + free shipping.

 

[User Name missing]

Actually his will. A SATA laptop drive (which from what I can tell his is) has the same connections as a desktop SATA drive. If he has access to a PC with sata connections and a sata cable he can just plug it in like a normal hard drive.

what about power? I know nothing of SATA laptop HD, but IDE doesnt have the power port as your normal 3.5 HD does. So an adapter is needed, at least for IDE.

 

[Jay FX4]

what about power? I know nothing of SATA laptop HD, but IDE doesnt have the power port as your normal 3.5 HD does. So an adapter is needed, at least for IDE.

I don't know much about IDE, but for the SATA drives, the USB port provides ample power.

The enclosures like the one I posted the link for, come with a USB cable. There is a Y on the male A end. In case a single USB port doesn't provide enough power, you can use power from 2 ports.

 

[Jaymz9350]

what about power? I know nothing of SATA laptop HD, but IDE doesnt have the power port as your normal 3.5 HD does. So an adapter is needed, at least for IDE.

the power and data connections are the same as a desktop drive. If he has a motherboard with sata and a sata plug on the power supply he could plug it in to check.

 

[willied]

Get what Jay said to get. Put the HDD in there and you're good to go (as long as the HDD still works fine).

And how did this laptop get crushed?