Retrieving lost pictures???
Awhile back my laptop took a******and I had to do a system restore and in the process I lost alot of pictures. As I understand the pictures are still on the hard drive. Does anyone know of a way to ge...
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Gdetrailer wrote:1492 wrote:tplife wrote:
Remove the hard drive from the laptop, change its pins to make it a slave drive. Plug this into a PC and explore the new slave drive for your photos. Download them into the PC hard drive, then change the pins on the slave back to master and re-install into the laptop.
It would have to be an old laptop if it had a PATA drive? SATA doesn't doesn't require any master/slave configuration.
LAPTOP PATA (parallel ATA or Parallel IDE) drives DO NOT have any Master/Slave drive configuration jumpers that I know of. Everyone of the PATA laptop drives I have ever had my hands on only have the interface/power connection...
Most 2.5" PATA HDs for laptops are set to a cable select type of configuration to identify between Master/Slave, based on cable channel. Though its possible to have more than one HD in a laptop, I've never come across one with PATA drives. Not unheard of with SATA drives, as some either forgo or remove the DVD drive in favor of a second SATA storage drive. Many times using an SSD for the OS drive, and a second SATA HD for data. But, still not very common.
