[Leica] Disc universal drive and question

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

As you read this, I am using a no-name version of that gadget serial ATA,
IDE HD to USB2 cable adapter.

My HP computer crashed due to fan failure, but the fan is not the problem,
I'm not too sure what all the issues were, but anyhow, I've harvested  both
drives and I'm copying the data to my backup drive, using my new Lenovo.

One question . . .  It seems that Vista won't let me look at the documents
and settings page on the OS drive, which holds the desktop.  I have some
files there I would like to save.

Any ideas?



On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:

>
> This is a worthwhile gadget to have. Similar ones are on sale at most
> electronics/computer stores and on the internet. Mine is called a "USB 2.0
> Universal Drive Adapter" and is made by Newer Technology. I believe I paid
> about $24 for it. You can pull the disc drive from a computer or a broken
> housing, connect up the disc adapter plug and download the contents of the
> disc to any device with a USB plug. The real advantage, other than reading
> discs from failed computers, is that you can buy naked disc drives on the
> internet for less than $50 a terabyte and use them to store your data 
> files.
> This was a technique I learned from Brian. I now have a shelf full of them.
> Each takes up less room than a VCR tape. Cheap, cheap.
>
> Incidentally, you can buy disc housings complete with power supply and
> output ports into which you can mount the disc drive of your choice for
> about $30 at any large computer store. Check out <www.microcenter.com>
>  They are having a sale on this stuff.
>
> Larry Z
>
>
>
>
> Frank 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.
>
>
>
>
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