Reddit mentions of Generic SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB 2.0 Adapter Converter Cable for 2.5 / 3.5 Inch Hard Drive / 5 inch Optical Drive with External AC Power Adapter

Hyjacking this comment. Startup issues are either hardware (motherboard, RAM, Powersupply, HDD) or software (filesystem is corrupted/broke, boot files missing). If you can't get the laptop working....

1 Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW
2 pull HDD from non-functional laptop
3 connect to working one(connect power supply last)
4 copy files to New laptop
5 copy files to Google drive/ OneDrive/ etc

Get an external drive kit like this one, then remove the hard drive and connect it to a different computer using the kit.

These things make your life very easy.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Something like this is what you need.

Make friends with someone local and technically competent, or get familiar with simple hardware and software work. You'll need a Windows install disk, a new hard drive, an USB to hard drive connector and a screwdriver set to do this.

• From a 'safe' PC, change all your email/social networking/other sites passwords and challenge questions. Don't reuse old ones, don't use ones he can guess. If you need suggestions, go here
  
  
• Have your new friend replace the hard drive in your laptop and install the operating system of your choice on the new hard drive. This means that your PC is now clean of any previous RATs, as well as your personal files. You may want to invest in up to date antivirus and anti malware packages.
  
  
• With that now known good system, do a backup and factory reset on your iPhone. You're going to want to copy over photos, contacts and email, but any apps should be reinstalled via the Apple Store.
  
  
• Connect your old hard drive via the USB connector. Run your antimalware scan on that drive until it comes up clean. Copy over your personal files (photos, documents and the like) until you're sure you have everything.
  
  
• I think it's unlikely that he's rooted your WiFi router, but just in case, you can update the firmware to ensure that it's unmodified. Change the WPA key and the login password while you're at it.
  
  Good luck. Recognize that if he's a douchebag, he'll threaten you with exposure of anything he's already obtained. You'll have to accept that or he'll have power over you.

Yank the drive and use one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002OV1VJW

If you're trying to get data off, no sense dealing with the owners passwords/os/etc

It's more hassle than it's worth to hook up an external screen and to try and initiate transfer from a broken computer.

There are USB 3.0 adapters if your machines have USB 3.0 which is significantly faster at copying data than 2.0

This one will do.

https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

That's an old PATA drive. You'll need something like this. No guarantee if that particular adapter will work, never used it, but there don't seem to be many like it.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Buy that and plug the hard drive into the PATA slot (wide flat bit on the side of the white usb cord).

you can try pulling it out and using something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW to plug it into a different computer.

Sounds toast though

Like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Yes, you can do it that way. But, it will be slow doing that way.

Me, I would just take out the HDD and use a tool like this. https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW Faster to extract data from HDD while hook to a better computer.

AndrewCooke is onto something. The HDD could be dying.

If you're worried about the health of your hard drive, here's how to test it:

Get one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Use it to connect the suspect drive to another, working computer.

DL and install this program and use it to rate the health of the drive you just connected:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/crystaldiskinfo.html

Take it to a pc repair shop they can unsolder the battery and reset it within a day usually. Getting a new hard drive won't do anything since your locking the BIOs bootup for the machine. The laptop is locked from even booting at this point.

Another option is to remove the hard drive and use one of these adapters.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

It looks like that drive isn't SATA, it's IDE - the back of it looks like this, right?

SATA to usb won't work you'll need something more like this

This one is less bulky and works with newer and older drives. I take this one with me whenever I get the inevitable calls from family at 3:00 AM :)

And this one is meant as a docking station. I have one of these at my office for convenience.

I haven't had any problems with either of them.

Buy/borrow one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Connect your hard drive into your USB with the connectors.

Run a basic (and free) recovery program like Recuva or PhotoRec. Both pretty easy to use.

Upload the video here after you recover it.

edit: up arrow didn't show up. / grammar.

Why not just get one of these?

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

> scusa e mi dispiace.

Ok, no problem.

>Due considerazioni a margine circa l'aiuto e, permettimi, le sciocchezze scritte da alcuni utenti sul denaro e il chiedere a questa sub assistenza gratis per il piccì.

Questo è un atteggiamento abbastanza comune tra gli informatici (poi qualcuno ne abusa, come in tutte le questioni umane) perchè spesso attività ad alto contenuto professionale vengono snobbate e relegate ad un "vabbè cosa ti costa perdere due ore e mettermi a posto il pc?". Comunque è un argomento complesso, sfaccettato e a libera interpretazione, quindi possiamo parlarne ma nessuno dei due ne uscirebbe soddisfatto :)

In ogni caso, senza dilungarsi troppo, ti è stato dato anche il suggerimento di provare a collegare il pc ad un monitor esterno, cosa che dovrebbe funzionare se il guasto è nello schermo, ma non nel chip video. Hai provato? Non hai dato risposta. Sarebbe la cosa più semplice da fare, se ne hai la possibilità.

L'altra strada ancora tutto sommato facile è togliere il disco fisso del portatile e collegarlo da un'altra parte. In genere i dischi fissi sono facilmente accessibili, sul fondo del pc. C'è uno scomparto a incastro o tenuto in posizione da viti, ma di facile smontaggio. Ho trovato solo il manuale in cinese (!!!!!), qui però a pagina 18 c'è il disegno del sotto, e indica dove si trova l'hard disk (elemento 4). In genere ci sono 2 o 3 viti che lo tengono in posizione. Una volta che l'hai smontato (viti a parte, il resto dovrebbe essere di facile rimozione) puoi attaccarlo ad un qualsiasi adattatore SATA, tipo questo: https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Al limite dopo che hai smontato l'hard disk puoi vedere che connettore monta, e fare una ricerca per capire che attacco usa, o chiedere qui, giusto per evitare di comprare cose di cui non sei sicuro.

This one is the exact one I purchased. I'd say it's not much more convenient than connecting it directly to your PC when you have to deal with all the wires, but I don't have an IDE port on my motherboard so I don't have a choice.

Not quite. That looks like IDE to sata


Something like this would work. I’d recommend one with a power supply as IDE drives can require more power than a USB can support.


https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002OV1VJW/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519098611&sr=2&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2972396462&pd_rd_wg=guS77&pf_rd_r=QHVHJ0VNWYBRNX8Z59P1&pf_rd_s=mobile-sx-bottom-slot&pf_rd_t=9701&pd_rd_i=B002OV1VJW&pd_rd_w=4G6yC&pf_rd_i=sata%2Fide+to+usb+3.0+adapter&pd_rd_r=5840e8c3-ed95-4ac0-aa87-d50b8402f800&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65

Get that connector should work, but I'd recomend this connector instead because it comes with a power adapter. For you particular problem, you won't need the power cable, but it is a great tool to have later. This should work with a Mac, it will appear just like a thumb drive.

A quick warning: plug in the old hard drive before plugging in the USB to the computer. If you plug in the USB and then the hard drive, the disk will spin up before you have the chance to set it down; moving an old hard drive at full speed my break it.

Hi, you wont be able to "clone" the old hard drive for the new computer. I'm not 100% sure of what stops it but my best guess is 1. the settings for other/new system are too different and 2. it's a licensing counter measure from Microsoft (assuming you are using windows).

The best thing to do, is get one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Then connect the old drive to the adapter, then the adapter to the new computer, copy photos/music/etc

> Do you think I should use a normal external HDD with a dedicated PSU or spend the extra money, get a real NAS and run a plex server on it?

Good question. I've had time to play with both a real NAS, as well as a NAS powered by an Odroid C1 (small computer similar to the RPi). When I had a NAS setup on my Odroid, I used a small kit exactly like this one and connected it to an a standard internal 3.5" HDD. It seemed to work fairly well, the Odroid has gigabit ethernet and I was seeing transfer speeds of ~ 40MB/s.

I also have a true NAS box, and with that I see speeds of ~ 60 to 65MB/s when transferring data, so it's a little quicker than my Odroid NAS. Only catch is the cost, the NAS box itself cost me about $200 CAD when I bought it, and for a decent one now you'd probably be spending $150 to $200 USD, which is way more than the cost of an RPi.

So anyway, back to your original question, what I suggest would be to purchase a normal internal HDD as well as that kit I linked above. You can use that with the RPi as a NAS, and if it works for you then that's great - you have a cheap and efficient NAS! However, if you find that the performance from the RPi isn't as great as you expected, you can then purchase a real NAS and install the drive in it that you purchased for the original RPi NAS. That way, you'd only be out the $10 or so from the adapter kit, because you can install the HDD into the new NAS. I wouldn't recommend going the external drive route, because if you ever wanted to migrate from an RPi NAS to a real NAS, you'd have to purchase brand new hard drives as well, because the external HDD wouldn't be able to be installed inside of a NAS.

USB to ide or sata... One of these : http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Cheap SATA to PATA adapter?

Or maybe a USB device like this would be more reliable?

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

To add to this ... .If you don't want to keep that drive always connected to your PC, you can get one of these that will allow you to connect several different styles of drives.

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW

Would something like this work? I would like something stateside. Sorry if I'm being nuisance.

You can pick up a slave kit at Best Buy or Amazon (Christ, that sounds bad) for about 10 bucks

We use ones similar to this at work

It's a little cumbersome but gets the job done

Plug it into your desktop and see if you can get to your files. You can also scan it or try to repair it

That's indeed an IDE port and Molex-powered device. Sometimes PC repair shops will have an adapter like this. StarTech makes cheap adapters, but I have one and it works in a pinch. I wouldn't recommend using it for a long time, though. I'm willing to bet the disk and its data aren't worth it, but it's up to you :)

There's this

I don't see where anybody mentioned installing linux on the working computer. It's free. Everyone knows linux users get more girls, or at least grow bushier beards, so there's that. You can read/copy all your files off the two windows drives. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW It might be a little bit harder than some people like to claim, but with a little persistence you'll git er done.
Or you can take a third computer (running linux will avoid windows permissions problems, copy all the files, then go to settings and remove and reinstall windows, then get your files off the storage drive.

Is the Linux machine a desktop? If so, just pull the SSD and add it to your PC. You will need an additional SATA cable as well as a power cable for it. Or, if you want to you can get one of these and go that route.

Worst case scenario, it will ask you to reactivate windows. if you switch the hard drive.
As far as setting it up externally >
I use something very similar to this >> http://smile.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1416383465&sr=8-3&keywords=USB+Adapter+for+hard+drive

Or something similar to this>>
http://smile.amazon.com/iDsonix%C2%AE-SuperSpeed-Docking-Station-Design/dp/B00FDLCTQO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416383465&sr=8-2&keywords=USB+Adapter+for+hard+drive

Edit: Forgot about windows uefi, you may have to disable secure boot in the bios.

Buy a external adapter to USB and just plug it in after the computer boots?

https://www.amazon.com/Mosuch-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1518206272&sr=8-4&keywords=external+hd+adapter&dpID=51zEeCiolkL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Looks like that drive is full size, not laptop size. If that is the case the usb adaptor can’t supply the 12 volt power the drive needs to run.
You may need one of these instead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002OV1VJW

The hard drive is PROBABLY fine, it sounds like there is probably a problem with the mainboard if it won't power on - but this doesn't guarantee the hard drive is OK. BUT, it's probably fine.

You want something like this

You can then remove the hard drive by following these instructions and plugging the hard drive into the USB adapter, powering it on, and plugging it into a different computer. Then, just find the files!

Get one of these kits

get one of these so you can back it up, copy it, and do it with every future hard drive you find.

I'm not educated on jumpers, would that affect the ability of an adapter to read it if I just remove it entirely? And I only need an adapter to get the data off of it because this is from an old defunct computer.

Edit:
http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1459122712&sr=1-1&keywords=3.5+pata+to+usb

Would this be sufficient?

Buy and adapter and plug them in. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW