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Spatha · 01-October-07, 03:55 PM

I have 3 hard drives right now that have been confusing the hell out of me. The first 2 are a pair of 80 Gig laptop IDE hard drives that were raided (raid 0) in my alienware craptop. The drives are fine (I think) the laptop isn’t recognizing any hardware; I’m just trying to figure out if there is a way I can hook them up to a desktop to rescue the data.
The 3rd is a Seagate 400 Gig IDE. It was in an external enclosure being used to store my vids and comics around 3 thousand ( I really don’t want to have to hunt that down again.)
One day I turned it on and the hard drive activity light just started to blink, no response I’m thinking I’m going to try and plug it directly into my computer tonight but just wondering if you guys have any idea. I tried in a different enclosure and it recognized it as an unformatted drive. I think the second enclosure couldn’t handle the drive size.
The drive dose spin up in the second enclosure so I’m hoping its ok. I originally had it in a metal gear box but I don’t think I’m going that rout ever again; any suggestions for a replacement.
Thanks guys I appreciate the help.

01-October-07, 03:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
Spatha Apex Tech Fanatic Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 634	Hard drives need a rescure I have 3 hard drives right now that have been confusing the hell out of me. The first 2 are a pair of 80 Gig laptop IDE hard drives that were raided (raid 0) in my alienware craptop. The drives are fine (I think) the laptop isn’t recognizing any hardware; I’m just trying to figure out if there is a way I can hook them up to a desktop to rescue the data. The 3rd is a Seagate 400 Gig IDE. It was in an external enclosure being used to store my vids and comics around 3 thousand ( I really don’t want to have to hunt that down again.) One day I turned it on and the hard drive activity light just started to blink, no response I’m thinking I’m going to try and plug it directly into my computer tonight but just wondering if you guys have any idea. I tried in a different enclosure and it recognized it as an unformatted drive. I think the second enclosure couldn’t handle the drive size. The drive dose spin up in the second enclosure so I’m hoping its ok. I originally had it in a metal gear box but I don’t think I’m going that rout ever again; any suggestions for a replacement. Thanks guys I appreciate the help.