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Hard Drive Data Recovery With Vantec USB SATA IDE Hard Drive Adapter
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www.pcroger.com – This short video shows how the Vantec USB hard drive adapter will allow you to easily connect and access data from almost any workstation hard drive. Useful for laptop data recovery or normal PC hard drive data recovery.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:04 am
USB Drive Letter Missing – How to add a drive letter
Unfortunately, YouTube will not let me post a direct link, but that is what it is named. Should be able to find in the list of my videos.
thanks.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 am
Your video is good, you explain everything very clear and easy to understand. Great job.
I do have one question, you mention in the video if your drive does not show up as a new drive or letter and you have another video that can explain how to tackle this problem. Where can I view this video, what is it titled? I am stuck.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:41 am
In my possession i have a dell XPS gaming laptop. It’s monitor and backup graphics card no-longer works. I have had a look at the Hard-drive and I believe it’s a 2.5 drive. Would this device be-able to salvage my data of it? I believe it’s a SATA drive. Please help me.
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:38 am
you can just buy an external hard drive and copy all your music, photos, videos its cheaper & safer.
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:44 am
I believe you would have to buy a program like MacDrive to be able to read the disk
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:10 am
does it work from Mac to pc
i want to recover my photos from my mac before i reinstall the snoe leopard
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:29 am
Try this freecomputerconsultant (dot) com (slash) usb-drive-letter-missing (dot) html
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:11 am
hi i have wd500g serial ata. there is not port 4 sata i want my data out form hardisk. its shows in notification area but its not showing in my computer.i do everything but i cant take out my data plz help me.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:56 am
Glad to hear it!
Thanks for reporting back.
Roger.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:23 am
OMG it worked! Screw Geek Squad! You’re the best Roger. Thank you so much. I’m going to name my first born FreeCompConsultant or Roger.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:57 am
Crash means different things to different people. USUALLY if the drive is spinning and NOT making any clunking or weird sounds there is a good chance at recovery.
You can almost always recover data with a VERY expensive recovery service even if not spinning up.
I question his diagnosis after only 5 minutes.
The adapter is pretty cheap and handy to have anyway…
PCRoger.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:35 am
My harddrive crashed last week, so I took it to geeksquad to recover the data. Even before they looked at it, the technician told me that if the hard drive had crashed there’d be no way to recover the data. He then took a look at it and returned five minutes later to say that nothing was recoverable. Is this true or was he incorrect? Is it worth trying to do this on my own? Thanks for any help.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:43 am
I was told once that WD hdd need to have all the jumpers (prong connectors, whatever you call them) out if it’s the only drive on the line, which may include external connectors like this one. Try it.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:25 am
I know my Windows is trashed (BSoD) but how do I know if my hard drive is crashed?
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:03 am
Hi I have the exact same product you are using for this video. THe problem here is I am having some problems with it, but there is little to no techinical support. I have a WD 160GB hdd that is not being read by the computer. I have tried it on two different computers running windows xp and no dice. I have updated all my usb controllers under device manager and still nothing. If you could help me that would be greatly appreciated.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:56 am
Hi! What if my HD has some corruption. I replaced the hal.dll, but now it’s asking for another file. Checkdisk report was scary!! 4 weeks ago it tanked and started grinding. I rebooted and thats when it started asking for all these files. Will this USB approach still work even with my HD in it’s condition. It is still readable.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:33 am
I don’t have any stores around me that carry it. There is a link in the description to get it online.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
Can you buy this in stores? or only online?
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:20 am
No driver needed.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:47 am
Got one thanks. where i can get a driver for win xp?
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:09 am
where can I get a driver for windows xp? thanks
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 am
It really is slick. There is a link in the video’s description to go pick one up.
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
That is just to cool.Gotta have one
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Should work no problem. Either 2.5″ IDE (older drive) or SATA (newer drive), it will work on either.
If you have the older 2.5″IDE then make sure you have a relatively new PC with USB 2.0 to plug it into.
There is a link in the description to the video to check it out.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:36 pm
is this universal? can be used in toshiba laptop hard drive?