I have a external hard drive that has no power - dinodave

dinodave · #1 17th Aug 2008, 06:23 AM

Can anyone help
I have a external hard drive that has no power.
can the hard drive be put into another unit to recover data.It's
essential to recover data ?

**philthomas** · #2 17th Aug 2008, 01:12 PM

If it's a standard 3.5" or 2.5" USB drive, you should be able to remove the drive and put it in a new enclosure. It's most likely a standard IDE Drive, so just grab a new USB2 Enclosure and put the drive in. Providing the drive is not damaged it will fire up and work fine.

**serverguy** · #3 17th Aug 2008, 01:18 PM

If you open the drive enclosure up, you might notice something obvious, like a power connector fallen out.

Have you checked the fuse in the plug?

If its a 3.5" drive then you could just stick it in a normal computer as a slave and copy the stuff off it, or if its a 2.5", get one of those laptop IDE adaptor things (the name escapes me) and plug it in as normal.

Saves buying a new enclusure.

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