Re: USB hard drive docking station

In article <#NSAnMlcIHA.3400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <#8zrMFNbIHA.4684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Anna"
<myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"a.m. Lason" <amlason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Christmas day my PC crashed and I originally thought it was my primary
hard drive so I took it to the geek squad at Best Buy to have it
checked out and they told me yes it was bad so I bought a replacement.

After checking further I've found that my power supply had burned out.
Being that I had already purchased a new hard drive I reinstalled
Windows XP Home on it.

Since then I got to thinking that maybe the original hard drive was
not damaged because my secondary hard drive was okay.

What I would like to do is get a USB hard drive docking station in
order to check out the old hard drive. Although I had Norton Ghost
and a carbon copy on my secondary drive I was unable to access it and
it was useless.

I figure, by using the USB hard drive docking station I might be able
to boot to the old hard drive and possibly retrieve my data that I
lost in the crash.

Any and all comments would be appreciated.

.
Albert


Albert:
Can we assume that when you refer to a "USB hard drive docking station"
you're referring to a typical run-of-the-mill USB external enclosure?

Assuming that is the case...while it's probably desirable for you to have
a
USB enclosure (they're cheap enough nowadays) so as to install a HDD in
that
enclosure and use the device in a routine comprehensive backup system
together with your Ghost or other disk-cloning program...I don't think it
would be necessary merely to try to access the data on your problem HDD.
First of all it wouldn't be bootable in a USB external HDD even if the
drive
contained a non-corrupted bootable version of the XP OS.

I also have XP fully installed on a 4GB flash drive

Why can't you simply install that HDD as a secondary HDD in your PC, boot
to
your new HDD and see if you can access the data on the problem HDD that
way?
Or, assuming the disk is non-defective and contains a non-corrupted
bootable
XP OS, why not simply install it as your boot drive to determine if it is
bootable?

Of course, I'm assuming in all this that you have sufficient experience to
get inside your computer case to accomplish this. It's certainly not a
difficult process.
Anna


"GMAN" <glenzabr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What are you talking about anna? I have a bootable USB hard drive
enclosure
that i regularly boot a copy of XP on for testing purposes. If the Bios
supports booting from a USB device, you can most certainly do it. I also
have
Ubuntu linux on a second HD in another enclosure.


GMAN:
I am glad to hear that you're able to boot to an XP OS while such is
contained in a USB external HDD enclosure. We have never been able to do so
(except in a very few cases that turned out to be unreliable). And we have
worked with a large number of motherboards that presumably supported USB
boot capability.

I am aware of a number of reports, similar to yours, where the user reported
an ability to boot XP from a USB external device, but by & large that
capability has eluded us.

Would you be good enough to inform me of the make & model of the motherboard
you're working with together with the make & model of your USB external
enclosure? And any other details that you may care to include? Thanks much.
Anna



Yes, its the ASUS Commando motherboard (Socket 775)


The external HD enclosure is an ME-340 USB2/IEEE1394 capable enclosure
www.anywarus.com seems to be the manufacturer of the case

http://www.anywareus.com/products/enclosures/me340.html



But are sold under many different brands, just a few of them below.

http://www.computercareus.com/product-desc.asp?modelcode=2703
http://shopping.msn.com/Reviews/shp/?itemId=56387776


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