I got a disk enclosure at CrudUSA today — they didn’t have any Firewire boxes, just USB2.0. But it was only $20 and works OK with newer Macs. I spent a couple of hours digging the hard drive out of my iBook, which incidentally exposed the video chip that needs to be heated up. I'll craft a heat shield for it tomorrow (while working at home) and take it into work Wednesday. The computer took a minute or two to recognize the new drive, but it’s been fine since then.
Maybe I'll take Daughter Dearest’s iBook apart tomorrow evening. If that goes as planned, I can take them both in and get them both (I hope! I hope! I hope!) fixed at once. If the fix doesn’t work, it’ll be back to CrudUSA for another drive enclosure; then we’ll both at least have our data where we can get to it.
Monday, January 22, 2007
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Hi FARfetched.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting everything back. I've got a few questions for you.
1. What is a disk enclosure? Is it an external hard drive?
2. Does it only work on MAC's?
3. If it works on PC's, do you think I could recover my info I lost last years? That is, if I didn't reformat the hard drive trying to get the computer to work.
Hope you have as much luck with Daughter Dearest's iBook.
Take care.
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ReplyDelete1) A disk enclosure is half of an external hard drive, with the hard drive itself being the second half. :-) They come in two sizes, 2-1/2 inch for laptop drives & 3-1/2 inch for desktop drives. The connectors inside are different.
2) It works on any 21st century computer, and many 20th century computers. The enclosure I got came with a driver CD for W98; anything else should just recognize it without having to load a driver.
3) Yes, if you put it in an enclosure, you should be able to get the data on it unless the hard drive was the problem to begin with (or you reformatted it).
I hope your old system was a desktop... even with instructions, and nothing to lose, tearing a laptop apart is scary.
Thanks for the info FARfetched. Next time I'm in the big city, I'll take a look.
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