looks like HDD failed on old laptop. very old dell Latitude.
Hitachi DK23EA-20 ATA HDD.
Bootmgr error.
Can anyone help to find a connector for USB to save old photos befire trashing it?
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nobus
8/22/2022 - Mon
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you can boot from DVD like Hiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) and recover you files.
David Johnson, CD
Vantec makes one but you will need to add power (molex connector)
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dfke
Hi,
You say very old laptop. What version of Windows is it running?
You can get an external interface for a couple of bucks so you can connect through usb.
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John
I have a Sabrent 3.5 inch SATA / IDE (44 pin) enclosure with power supply and USB connection to computer that I got at a local electronics store. Works fine. Startech (https://www.startech.com/ca/) has these also.
joinaunion
What's the bootmgr error?
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bootmgr is missing error.
I think its was running windows XP.
John
So try the carrier I recommended to attach the drive to a working computer
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hi john can you send me a link please. Amazon or Ebay etc. thx
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dfke
Hi,
by the way the drive is set as Master (no jumper) i.e. when connected with a second drive set as slave (with a jumper) on a regular ide cable in a pc, it will show up as C:\
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Can't tell from newegg picture. Just want to make sure its a ATA100 interface, 44 pin IDC connector type.
For the interface in the picture I posted.
Oh, and looks like its out of stock on newegg :(
dfke
Hi,
Yes it's an ata-100 drive with the 44 pin idc.
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Cool. Let me try amazon or ebay. Thanks!
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Drive has a male IDC 44 pin connector. So I need a female adapter. So something like this would work?
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Will do gimme a day. Thx.
nobus
you can also run a diag on the disk ( you find all diags on the UBCD)
i usually run also HDDRegenerator on such drives, in most cases, they are repaired, and do boot again http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html
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These are better pictures of what I have for the HDD and for the connectors (IDE and SATA) Attached.
Please suggest something to connect to those that I have from that HDD to recover data. Thank you! IDC1.png IDC2.png sata1.png IDE1.png IDE2.png
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Tiras25
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Got it. So you think there's an adapter left inside the laptop that connects that IDC 44pin connectoron HDD. I'll take a peek a little laterthis week. Thanks!
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Tiras25
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Thanks guys, I'll see if its removable when I get to it, this weekend.
Update. Looks like it is removable. Thanks nobus!!
Let me see if I can attach it to USB that way and backup data. Will update soon. Thanks.
nobus
tx for the update - it is much simpler than you thought - in the end...
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exactly. Didn't think about it.
Thank you!!
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Then nobus said it wasn't removable and now says it is...Lol
nobus
i can't see where i said it was not removeable???? i Always said to remove it
joinaunion
@Nobus.
After I said it was removablr you jumped in and said it wasnt. Then more comments were made then you said it was removable. Look back on all the comments.
I clearly asked jer/him to remove it long before you. Thanks.
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nobus
no you said i " By loooking at the pictures it looks like a sata jumper is on the drive." it is no sata jumper, it is a sata adapter to a propietary disk connector, as HP used often
joinaunion
Exactly nobus. I said it was a sata jumper and that it was removable.