A power supply problem

Doodus · Aug 23, 2010

Hey i'm new on the forum and I hope that someone can help me!

I have a PC at home and the power supply has failed. I plan on upgrading the computer anyway and getting an entirely new machine but there is some data I want to retrieve off of this one if I can. I have tried putting the HDD in another machine but I think due to the fact its a dell machine it wont let me boot from the hard drive and nor will it let me access it without formatting. Is there anything I can buy or anything I can do to get some power to it so that i can copy some files off before I scrap this shitty machine?

Thanks in advance

grunt_408 · Aug 23, 2010

http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-IDE-2-5-3-5-Connector-Cable-Power-PC-/270621349804?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

And welcome to TPU

Doodus · Aug 23, 2010

Craigleberry said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-IDE-2-5-3-5-Connector-Cable-Power-PC-/270621349804?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

Thanks for the reply, but won't this have the same effect as when I connected the HDD to my other computer? Wouldn;t it still require formatting in order to access all of the data?

grunt_408 · Aug 23, 2010

No. If you want the data from the drive. Do not format it. Just hook it up to another PC via the USB and your good. You may need to jumper the drive to master if it is an older type IDE drive.

You can do it by hooking it up to the motherboard on another machine just make sure it is set to boot from the PC's main drive and not that one and jumpers set accordingly (SLAVE) if it is an older drive

Doodus · Aug 23, 2010

Craigleberry said:
No. If you want the data from the drive. Do not format it. Just hook it up to another PC via the USB and your good. You may need to jumper the drive to master if it is an older type IDE drive.

You can do it by hooking it up to the motherboard on another machine just make sure it is set to boot from the PC's main drive and not that one and jumpers set accordingly if it is an older drive

Yea I did hook it up to my other PC by connecting it to the MB but it wouldn't let me access the drive. Before it could be used it needed formatting which I obviously can't do. I'll try reconnecting it to the master tonight and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for your help

grunt_408 · Aug 23, 2010

Doodus said:
Yea I did hook it up to my other PC by connecting it to the MB but it wouldn't let me access the drive. Before it could be used it needed formatting which I obviously can't do. I'll try reconnecting it to the master tonight and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for your help

How do mean it would not let you access the drive? Did you try booting into its O/S? Or did you boot into the Pc you where trying it on and it does not show in My Computer or Disk Managment?
If you are hooking it to your motherboard. It needs to be a slave drive. Boot into your Pc's O/S and hopefully you can see it in My Computer.

Doodus · Aug 23, 2010

Craigleberry said:
How do mean it would not let you access the drive? Did you try booting into its O/S? Or did you boot into the Pc you where trying it on and it does not show in My Computer or Disk Managment?
If you are hooking it to your motherboard. It needs to be a slave drive. Boot into your Pc's O/S and hopefully you can see it in My Computer.

I booted into 7 and in my computer you could see the drive, but when you click on it, it says it needs formatting to use it. I think there is a problem with the partition header, there may be some corrupt data on there. I know someone with some software that may be able to fix it so i might give him a try if all else fails.

de.das.dude · Aug 23, 2010

turn on the other machine. let it boot. then connect your HDD. goto device manager and "search for hardware changes". you should be able to copy off all files other than windows files.

robn · Aug 23, 2010

Doodus said:
I booted into 7 and in my computer you could see the drive, but when you click on it, it says it needs formatting to use it. I think there is a problem with the partition header, there may be some corrupt data on there. I know someone with some software that may be able to fix it so i might give him a try if all else fails.

Ok, you are doing it right! It might well be corrupted, but you can get lucky. My favourite software for recovering data is TestDisk / PhotoRec.

TestDisk can
Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT tables
Rebuild NTFS boot sector
Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
Fix MFT using MFT mirror
Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

Secondly, if no luck with that try out spinrite, though you have to buy it. It can reconstruct data patterns.

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Storage	Intel 600p NVMe 512GB for OS , 1TB WD Black and a 4TB Toshiba
Display(s)	BENQ PD3200U
Case	Phanteks
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair 750W
Mouse	Logitech G403 wired
Keyboard	G19
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Motherboard	MSI X370 Pro Carbon
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Memory	G-skill Flare x 16GB 2400MHz
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Storage	Intel 600p NVMe 512GB for OS , 1TB WD Black and a 4TB Toshiba
Display(s)	BENQ PD3200U
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Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair 750W
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Keyboard	G19
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