A friend has asked me to check with you if there is any way he (we) can recover data from the Hard Disk from his Compaq laptop.
I got the drive out and I have a little gadget/adaptor which is designed to read 2.5" drives into an ordinary IDE bay. I put the drive into an external box in place of the normal IDE drive that lives there, and all seemed OK except that there were 2 pins in the 2.5" drive connection that were left over.
Is there another way of connecting the laptop drive? His wedding and honeymoon photos are on that drive!
I could plug the IDE end of the adaptor into a spare IDE connection on another PC because the way I've just tried - external drive - didn't work. The platters sounded as if they were spinning and the green light came on in the housing but the PC didn't pick up anything from the USB connection.
Failing that, what can he do about data recovery?
Not my usual cry for help but he's cut up about losing his photos, understandably.
Cheers and happy 09/09/09
docusk