Comments on: How to recover data from failed laptop or notebook

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:44:33 +0000

Felicia,

the external monitor functions but there is no image on the notebook LCD panel

What is your question? It doesn’t sound like you have a problem with the hard drive.

By: Recovery Guy

Recovery Guy — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:41:52 +0000

Sue,

Don’t you have to make the drive a slave?
How do you make a SATA drive a slave?

There are no Master/Slave settings for SATA drives. The drive detected by the computer automatically (if the drive is working of course).

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:04:19 +0000

Don’t you have to make the drive a slave?
How do you make a SATA drive a slave?

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:43:29 +0000

hi-

I salvaged the hard drive from my smashed Toshiba computer, bought a 3 in 1 Drive adaptor, and have it connected to my new computer using the device. I need to extract my old data from the drive and put it on my new computer. it recognizes the drive and attempts to open it….and gets about 95% of the way there on the progress bar…but never succeeds in opening any data. what am i doing wrong??? any input would be greatly appreciated!!!

Emily

By: TOM

TOM — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:43:22 +0000

Recovery Guy Says

Are you trying to access this hard drive in Windows? Can you see the hard drive in the disc manager?

Recovery guy,
I have tried to access the harddrive in Vista and windows. I can see it but the second i click on it, the working icon appears and won’t access anything, it just times out.
Tom

By: Recovery Guy

Recovery Guy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:01 +0000

Felicia,

the external monitor functions but there is no image on the notebook LCD panel

What is your question? It doesn’t sound like you have a problem with the hard drive.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:30:02 +0000

the external monitor functions but there is no image on the notebook LCD panel

By: Recovery Guy

Recovery Guy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:35:08 +0000

Tom,

I have a Toshiba mk4025gas hdd2190 f ze01 s hard drive that I have tried to use the usb to Ibd, but it won’t recognize it.

Are you trying to access this hard drive in Windows? Can you see the hard drive in the disc manager?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:18:17 +0000

I have a Toshiba mk4025gas hdd2190 f ze01 s hard drive that I have tried to use the usb to Ibd, but it won’t recognize it. I know it works from other laptop hd’s, but i really need to files off of it. I can hear it spinning up so I know it’s not the motor. I was told the PCB might be fried and to try replacing that first, my concern is does that works? or is it a waste of time?

By: Recovery Guy

Recovery Guy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:42:13 +0000

petrocles,

i am trying to recover photos from my laptop. The laptop will not boot up Windows XP. I have a ide connector which i connected to my PC. The PC has Windows Vista installed. The hard drive does not show on my computer but i can see it on disk management but all options are greyed out except delete volume and help!

Apparently the file structure is corrupted. You will not be able to access this drive from Windows. You have a chance to get you pictures back if you use special data recovery software, for example GetDataBack for NTFS from Runtime Software.