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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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...
Besides plugging a drive directly into a PCs internal drive port is so 1990s. You can BUY a USB to hard drive "cable" adapter for less than $10 now days. This allows you to be able to plug a drive into a USB and NEVER have to crack open the PC case. Works great especially if you only have another laptop to work with.
Totally avoids a few other issues like WINDOWS detecting another BOOTABLE drive WHILE THE PC IS BOOTING.
Newer versions of Windows starting with Win7 WILL AUTOMATICALLY DISABLE any and all drives it discovers which have a ACTIVE BOOTABLE PARTITION. In fact Win7 may even detect the active partition on the USB drive and disable it too so, this is no longer a reliable way to fix or find lost files (or even copy files from an old PC). It is difficult to force Win7 to allow you access when it marks a drive as conflicting... :M
