[RESOLVED] hitachi hard drive n155

[chingis]

i have this drive from my epson 3000 photo saver, i dropped the epson and the thing wont work now, i have taken the hard disc out and it is a normal laptop hard disc drive hitachi 40gb n155 , how can i connect this to my computer to retrieve the pictures from it, and what cables etc would i need, disc recovery companies want 300 pounds sterling minimum and i cant afford this, any help appreciated

[jimbo1763]

You can get an adapter to hook up the 2.5 inch drive to your desktop, attach it as a slave to your IDE cable and try to access the drive that way.

An example is here. Most computer stores will have them.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

[Midknyte]

You could also try an external USB laptop drive enclosure.

Why weren't you backing up your photos in the first place? Even if you have an external repository, that's not a backup. Backup means you have 2 or more copies.

[chingis]

You can get an adapter to hook up the 2.5 inch drive to your desktop, attach it as a slave to your IDE cable and try to access the drive that way.

An example is here. Most computer stores will have them.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

thats done the trick jimbo, 19.99 sterling from maplin, thanks a million

midknyte the reason there was no back up was they were the back up the originals were on a 4gb cf card that got stolen with my bag in hong kong, the epson was the back up and i dropped it whilst connecting it to my computer to download the pics, "theres many a slip twixt cup and lip" as the saying goes

thanks again jimbo

[Midknyte]

ah that sucks. 300£ seems pretty reasonable. Ontrack or Drivesavers probably aren't gonna be any cheaper.