warsash saint Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 My 1TB external hard drive has died ( water damage i think !!) Anyway how easy are they to dismantle & try to hook up to my destop PC to see if any data is recoverable? Will it still still need a power supply or will the PC power it with a connection via SATA ? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al de Man Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 It should be a piece of p*ss. Open the external case and remove the drive. Kill the power to your PC, open it up and if it's reasonable modern, you'll find your optical drive will have SATA power and data interfaces which you can temporarily use. Power the PC back up and see if it recognises the second drive and if the data's accessible. Let us know how that goes and if it's still not working, we'll delve in to it in a bit more detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 24 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 24 May, 2011 I have finally got round to dismantling my external hard drive & as far as i can see I have no additional connections except the USB & power connections I already use ... how am i going to connect to PC?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted 24 May, 2011 Share Posted 24 May, 2011 its probably SATA II, mine was, I had to do exactly the same thing as you. Youll need to plug a sataII cable into it from your mobo or purchase a sataII pci card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 24 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 24 May, 2011 Thanks Baj...Sorry for being thick but how does the sata cable connect to my knackered hard drive ? All i have is a USB connection ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 25 May, 2011 Share Posted 25 May, 2011 You could buy a SATA to USB cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 25 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 25 May, 2011 Was looking at that but how will I power the hard drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 26 May, 2011 Share Posted 26 May, 2011 If its SATA it will be powered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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