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1st Jun 2009, 06:23
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I have an old desktop which has been stripped of most of its parts for PCs belonging to friends and family. I'm going to scrap it soon, but want to recover the data on the HDD. It's nothing hugely important, but I want to access it nonetheless.
It's a 3.5" IDE drive. At present, I have no external enclosures or alternative desktops to put it in, and the desktop it's in doesn't boot. As such, what I want to do is disconnect the data cable linking the HDD and desktop motherboard, and connect the HDD to my laptop using an IDE-to-USB cable. However, the drive requires a power supply (which I don't currently have). My proposed solution to this is to leave it mounted in its desktop caddy and continue drawing power through the desktop (which will be switched on, even though there is no way of booting, due to the HDD's data cable going to the laptop). As such, my question is this: Is it possible to access the data in a desktop mounted IDE HDD (as an external drive) if it is taking power thorugh the desktop, whilst having its data cable connected to the laptop? |
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1st Jun 2009, 06:32
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Don't see why not. Try it. It seems feasible to me.
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1st Jun 2009, 08:56
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Yep ..... should work fine.
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1st Jun 2009, 15:36
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