Hello,
Laptop died on me. Laptop uses 2.5 inch drive. Hard drive has data on which the future of the human race depends upon. So I went down to my local PC Club and picked up a "prisoner and/or child labor issue 2.5 inch HD to 3.5 inch IDE adaptor" which I promptly attached to the offending hard drive and plugged into my system.
2.5 inch Drive - Hitachi Travelstar 80 gig 5400 RPM
Adapter - Generic IDE adapter
When plugged into the system, it won't rec. any IDE drives, it either freezes at boot or fails to rec. the master hard drive (a Maxtor 70 gig POS). The jumpers on the 2.5 inch HD confuse me (the only thing available are two sets of two pin connectors next to the main branch of the IDE male connectors) and I really need to resolve this issue and pull the information off it ASAP (the 2.5 laptop drive does work, I tried it on another laptop and it booted fine).
My possible problems are that...
1) The Motherboard sucks
2) There is a problem reading the three or so partitions on the 2.5 inch disk
3) I'm not properly setting the jumpers on the 2.5 inch disk.
4) The adapter bites
5) The NSA and/or any devine entities that may or may not exist are conspiring against me.
Any help is of course appreciated.
Thank you,
Draal