I have some really important files on an old Western Digital laptop hard drive, which is now out the computer.
I have one of these wiring set ups you can buy, that plug into the 12v/hard drive/ then USB on current computer to read files.(this works perfectly fine as has been tested on another abandoned HDD)
my old internal HDD i presume is dead, as it does nothing and no command prompt appears on my new laptop, when i plug into the USB, so I can extract files.
However last night when i plugged it in to the wiring loom, the HDD started making a clicking noise, so something is trying to happen?
can I rescue this?
cheers
just to clarify the wiring loom makes your new computer think theres an external hard drive. but really its an old internal hard drive with 12v going to it
I have one of these wiring set ups you can buy, that plug into the 12v/hard drive/ then USB on current computer to read files.(this works perfectly fine as has been tested on another abandoned HDD)
my old internal HDD i presume is dead, as it does nothing and no command prompt appears on my new laptop, when i plug into the USB, so I can extract files.
However last night when i plugged it in to the wiring loom, the HDD started making a clicking noise, so something is trying to happen?
can I rescue this?
cheers
just to clarify the wiring loom makes your new computer think theres an external hard drive. but really its an old internal hard drive with 12v going to it