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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 4, 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 [...]

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How do i recover pics from a crashed hard drive?

July 4, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by There can be only one.: How do i recover pics from a crashed hard drive? i put hard drive into an external case and i can access the all the files except for the ones in the administration folder. i had it password protected. how can i get around it. its windows xp [...]

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How do you know if your external hard drive is dead?

July 3, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by Blegha Dawson: How do you know if your external hard drive is dead? The signs.. The sounds.. everything (: thanks

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When I plug my seagate portable hard drive to my mac it wont let me save files, how can I fix this?

July 3, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 4 Comments

Question by 41: When I plug my seagate portable hard drive to my mac it wont let me save files, how can I fix this? I have two seagate portable hard drives and when I plug them into my imac it wont let me save anything on them, I do not have this issue with [...]

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External Hard Drive crashed how do I save Information?

July 2, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by nick_astn: External Hard Drive crashed how do I save Information? I have an external hard drive that I am unable to open on my computer. I plug it into the USB and my computer sees it. I look in device manager and it is there and I am told everything is working fine. [...]

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Is Seagate still a viable company, or are they out of business?

July 2, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 4 Comments

Question by somber_pieces: Is Seagate still a viable company, or are they out of business? I bought a 500 gig hard drive a couple years ago, from Best Buy. To replace the antiquated drive on my old pc. Unfortunately the new drive crashed, it stopped working, it refused to start-up/run the OS. If the company [...]

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Can the Seagate Expansion external hard drive backup my ps3 slim?

July 1, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive Leave a Comment

Question by C.j.: Can the Seagate Expansion external hard drive backup my ps3 slim? I had just bought the 250gb Seagate Expansion Portable Drive today and was wondering if this could back up all of my saved games and other files on my PS3 Slim. If this could work, how would I backup the files [...]

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how to fix my external hard drive that was dropped on floor?

June 30, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 3 Comments

Question by Gino: how to fix my external hard drive that was dropped on floor? Best answer: Answer by joshProbably a broken hard drive. Unless you send it to a data recovery service, you’re pretty much screwed. Add your own answer in the comments!

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Is the Seagate Expansion Portable Drive compatible with Ubuntu?

June 30, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 3 Comments

Question by Andrei Dimaculangan: Is the Seagate Expansion Portable Drive compatible with Ubuntu? Do I have to install software? Best answer: Answer by BenAll hard drives interface exactly the same way with the computer. So yes, it is compatible. No, you don’t need to install software- the software isn’t even necessary on Windows. Add your [...]

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how do i get my music off a crashed hard drive?

June 30, 2011 By Broken Hard Drive 5 Comments

Question by Johnny W: how do i get my music off a crashed hard drive? is there any way i can get all my music of a crashed hard drive? Best answer: Answer by CrysisIf the hard drive is physically damaged by the header scratching the surface of the disks, it’s almost impossible to retrieve [...]

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