Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] Seagate - again
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:45:36 -0500

That's the voice of experience.  He probably soldered something on a
motherboard once, only to note something else falling off.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:55 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Seagate - again
> 
> At 02:35 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote:
> >I bought a gadget which is to all intents and purposes a hard drive
> >connector on one end of a cable, a USB connector on the other and a
> >power supply, I found it easy to remove my hard drive from its case,
> >plugged everything and there was my data. Not a permanent installation
> >but great for this sort of situation, though repairing the USB socket
> >in the existing case is another option.
> >I used to use this connector for backups to bare hard drives, but it
> >was a bit clunky so it is for emergency use only now.
> >Google should find one near you.
> >good luck,
> >Frank
> 
> Thanks, Frank, I'll Google it.  I took the hard drive out of the case
> but it doesn't mate up to any of the SATA enclosures that I
> have.  Mine are pretty old.  The USB socket had been soldiered in two
> tiny places and that's what broke loose.  I called the nearest
> computer repair place and asked about having it soldiered back on,
> but the guy (who called me Honey) said that would ruin the
> motherboard and my computer.  I explained that it was an external
> hard drive but he said he didn't do that kind of work and didn't know
> anybody who did. :-(   I'll look for the connector.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
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