Extracting data from dead Toshiba

[realityhack]

Will that one power it though?

Or is it just a USB adapter?

(at 2 year old I would guess SATA)

It comes with a power cable.
She'll check to see if it's SATA or IDE. Then she'll know what caddy to buy. I take it (never having seen one of those before) that you slot the drive into the connectors inside the caddy, which acts as a usb adaptor in itself, and then all you need are the USB cables? Did that SATA caddy come with all the cables you needed?

I did also read somewhere that you have to set the jumpers on the drive to 'master'.

[blacjac]

yep, the connectors are built in to the caddy, the one I bought came with everything you need (even a mini screwdriver).
Just plugged the hard drive in, screwed it down and away I went.

[BoredBloke]

I have a toshiba laptop and recently upgraded my hard drive to a bigger one. The 100 gb one it had is now in an external hard drive case and I use it for backups etc. They are a doddle to get out of the computer and easy to fit into the case. Do it yourself. It takes about 2 mins to do.

Try one of these

http://www.advancetec.co.uk/cgi-bin/...08071#a0808071

[meridian]

I did also read somewhere that you have to set the jumpers on the drive to 'master'.

If it's the only drive in the machine then the jumpers will already be set to Master. Only if it's an additional drive will they be set to Slave.

It's likely you'll need to set the jumpers to Slave if you want to use it as a second drive.

[blacjac]

Funnily enough when I got home this evening there was a Maplin catalog waiting for me containing this....


http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...%20usb&doy=7m8

[Churchill]

Funnily enough when I got home this evening there was a Maplin catalog waiting for me containing this....


http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...%20usb&doy=7m8

A Maplin catalogue?

I've been into Maplin in Cambridge today, they say the new catalogue isn't out until September... Hmmmm....?????????

[blacjac]

A Maplin catalogue?

I've been into Maplin in Cambridge today, they say the new catalogue isn't out until September... Hmmmm....?????????

Wasn't a full catalog, it was a summer deals catalog they stuffed in with the Optical Audio cable I ordered at the weekend .