[gills99stang]

Originally Posted by WLJohnson05 the way in the video is how it is hooked up stock its just not all in its case and everything and the other way i tried was using this thing from a place online called coolgear which has a hookup for it to plug into then it runs it into a usb. either way both are using the usb in the end to get to the computer. i dont think it sees it at all in the system

I can't watch the video, it won't work for me at work... I was going to say hook it up via the IDE cable.

[WLJohnson05]

Originally Posted by gills99stang I can't watch the video, it won't work for me at work... I was going to say hook it up via the IDE cable.

thas the way the coolgear thing works.

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[WLJohnson05]

well i froze it again and did a tap on it. the led is blinking at a lil quicker rate, and now one blinks before they all blink together...dont know if that serves any purpose or anything...

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[WLJohnson05]

the light is on but the drive doesnt sound like its spinning up and it isnt recognized by the computer!!! what can i do now?????

[gills99stang]

Any luck?

[Ace417]

have you tried a different usb port? the one you plugged into mightve went bad.

[WLJohnson05]

Originally Posted by gills99stang Any luck?

nope i think its done unless i pay to have it opened and recovered

Originally Posted by Ace417 have you tried a different usb port? the one you plugged into mightve went bad.

its beyond that

[gills99stang]

Originally Posted by WLJohnson05 nope i think its done unless i pay to have it opened and recovered its beyond that

Do you have sensitive stuff saved on it? I wouldn't mind taking a look at it, I've recovered hard drives before.

[WLJohnson05]

Originally Posted by gills99stang Do you have sensitive stuff saved on it? I wouldn't mind taking a look at it, I've recovered hard drives before.

what would u do? i've had one person look at it and i think he did everything except opening it.

[gills99stang]

Originally Posted by WLJohnson05 what would u do? i've had one person look at it and i think he did everything except opening it.

If you mean opening the hard drive itself up, then I don't think you're at a point anymore that it can be recovered. If you're just talking about the external case, it looks like you've already done that.

If it were me, I would remove the hard drive completely from any kind of external enclosure, then put it inside my desktop via IDE and see if I can get my device manager to recognize it. Sometimes it just needs another computer to do the job. If you want I can try it sometime, but you would need to provide another hard drive for me to transfer the data to if I can get it running long enough to do so. Or, if there's under 4.7 GB of data on it, I could burn it to DVD.

[dr.gonzo]

I dont know much about external drives but does that thing have the jumper to be able to switch from master to slave?

[gills99stang]

Originally Posted by dr.gonzo I dont know much about external drives but does that thing have the jumper to be able to switch from master to slave?

It should. Any external hard drive enclosure you buy at the store just has a normal hard drive inside, with power, IDE/SATA, and jumpers.

[dr.gonzo]

I have been able to save data from taking the master drive (c:\) and putting the jumper to slave and putting it on a diffrent computer. but thats about as far as I know about data recovery. I have heard of programs that can recover but I have heard some of them have problems.

[gills99stang]

Originally Posted by dr.gonzo I have been able to save data from taking the master drive (c and putting the jumper to slave and putting it on a diffrent computer. but thats about as far as I know about data recovery. I have heard of programs that can recover but I have heard some of them have problems.

Setting the jumper like you described is what I have done in the past to access the drive. As far as software, I helped a friend recover files from his laptop after a virus systematically wiped out most of his hard drive. It's basically an "un-delete" function, as all of the files that you delete on a computer are actually still there, just the "markers" that point to it are deleted. You have to use a program to actually wipe the the file to completely delete it, as it will actually write data over the deleted file so it cannot be recovered.