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Back up Computer files & etc. onto iPhone?

July 6, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by xODxixDOx: Back up Computer files & etc. onto iPhone? Ok, I need to backup my files on my laptop just in case something happens you know? However, I don’t have the “insert removable media or blank disc” available. I found out that one can use the iphone as a flash drive; in my [...]

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I bought a 2.5 USB IDE Adapter to transfer data on my crashed hard drive. How do the pins go into the drive?

July 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by riprat23: I bought a 2.5 USB IDE Adapter to transfer data on my crashed hard drive. How do the pins go into the drive? The hard drive pins are one solid part and the pins on the USB thing has little holes. I dont know how to insert the hard drive in to [...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery Issues Tagged With: answer, cable, change, drive pins, drive question, hdd, IDE, jumper, little holes, usb plug

My laptap does not recognize my seagate FreeAgent 500 GB external hard drive, what should I do?

July 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by Idika: My laptap does not recognize my seagate FreeAgent 500 GB external hard drive, what should I do? I have all my ebooks and mp3 music and movies in it. I have downloaded the driver for it and still it does not show up. Best answer: Answer by dfc849If you’re trying to use [...]

Filed Under: Seagate Tagged With: answer, Disk, external hard drive, laptap, Macs, music, seagate freeagent, two different computers, use, what should i do question

Where can I find a reasonably priced Sony Vaio VGN-SR190 hard drive connector cable?

July 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by matt: Where can I find a reasonably priced Sony Vaio VGN-SR190 hard drive connector cable? I recently broke my hard drive when I dropped it and, upon inspection I now see that the connector cable that connects the SATA hard drive to the motherboard is broken (one of the pins is bent around [...]

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Is my hard drive dead?

July 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 8 Comments

Question by Zudd: Is my hard drive dead? I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB HD plugged into an Adaptec ACS-200 external enclosure. When I turn on the enclosure, the light on the front blinks, a steady and regular blink like it’s indicating something, and the HD does not start up like it should (there [...]

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I dropped my WD Passport hard drive, how to recover my files?

July 5, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by kelicant: I dropped my WD Passport hard drive, how to recover my files? I dropped my Western Digital My Passport external hard drive. Well I didn’t, but someone else did and now I’m in a pinch because of it. I have all of my important files on it that I need a lot. [...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery Issues Tagged With: answer, computer, computer management, Disk, disk platters, metal case, passport, pinch, silver metal, wd passport

Is it normal for exteral hard drives to make clicking noises?

July 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by Schmidlapp84: Is it normal for exteral hard drives to make clicking noises? I have an external 1tb Seagate hard drive and while I’m playing movies or streaming over to my xbox the hard drive starts making some “clicking” noises. Sometimes shorter clicks and sometimes it clicks for about a minute in a repetitive [...]

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Partitioning Hard Drives?

July 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 2 Comments

Question by Mister Eeerious….: Partitioning Hard Drives? I just bought a 80 GIG harddrive and installed windows xp on it… I then realised that when I went into “My Computer” and checked its capacity it said that it was only about 40 Gigs total!!! I then went into Disk management (right clicked on my computer [...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery Issues Tagged With: answer, computer, disk management, gig, gig harddrive, Partitioning, partitioning hard drives, step answers, total, windows cd

Random Images on Hard Drive?

July 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 3 Comments

Question by : Random Images on Hard Drive? When I go to my finder and click “all images”, it shows thousands of images I have never downloaded or seen before. Some of them are completely random, like a huge pixelized black dot or a tiny gray stripe, and some are like tiny pixelized Microsoft office [...]

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How can I save someone's Myspace profile including the slide show of photos? I know how to save the page.

July 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 1 Comment

Question by Bruce T: How can I save someone’s Myspace profile including the slide show of photos? I know how to save the page. I know how to save the page to my hard drive by clicking “file” and then clicking on “save as…” but the slide show is not saved. I am referring to [...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery Issues Tagged With: answer, Butterfly, Myspace, myspace profile, notepad, page question, profile section, Show, slide show