Laptop HD Slave Drive Non-Function 1

[stevelockie]

Hi All,

I have a friend's laptop HD, his laptop fails to boot and he has years of golf coaching material on the HD (no back-ups!!)

The laptop HD looks pristine, I initially connected it to a USB enclosure, the drive was spinning but was not recognised on my pc.
I then connected an IDE cable adaptor, set the pin jumper to slave, plugged the drive into the CD-Rom port and used the CD-Rom power supply, but the drive didn't spin. I then connected it in the place of the main drive, using it's power supply and couldn't get the drive to spin.
Went back to the USB enclosure and it spun again.

I would like to get the data off this drive without having to go to a specialist.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Many Thanks

Steve

 

[G0AOZ]

Try leaving off the jumper, so it's set as Master. Temporarily disconnect the CD-ROM from the Secondary IDE interface on your desktop and attach the laptop drive. So it's now the Master (and only) drive on the Secondary i/face. See if that will work...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[stevelockie]

Thanks Roger,

I have attached it to the CD-Rom drive as you suggested, it's now spinning, the jumper was in the "master" position as opposed to leaving it off, don't know if that would make a difference?

Anyway, the BIOS is not seeing the drive!

 

[G0AOZ]

Laptop drives are often configured so that no jumper = Master, but this must be different with your drive. My point was to make sure it was a Master, and was attached to the motherboard IDE connector with no other drive to conflict with it.

You appear to have done this, but still got no joy. Looks like the drive motor is ok, but the drive interface electronics have failed. Prior to specialist attention, you could try changing the circuit board with known good identical model/revision number...

ROGER - G0AOZ.