Comments | eventide: computer assistance needed!

eventide

computer assistance needed!

Jan 04, 2008 19:35

...would anyone be willing to swap out a hard drive for me, preferably tomorrow or sometime during next week? i have to send my damaged one in to seagate, because it's under warranty, and in the meantime, i wanted to put in the hard drive from my old computer (which is dead, but the hard drive's still good ( Read more... )

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sailatinu January 5 2008, 03:30:28 UTC

Are you looking for a straight swap? taking an image/backing up all of your data from your old drive? any number of scenarios like that? full-on forensic data recovery?

eventide January 5 2008, 03:40:16 UTC

nah, i mean take the old damaged one out, put the old working one in...that's all i want for right now...

0mniscient January 5 2008, 04:29:02 UTC

Is there anything more to this than a few screws and plugs? Because every time I've ever opened up my computer, everything was fairly intuitive. I'll put my name on the "might as well be helpful" list, but a good techie friend should be able to have you back on your feet with just a couple of pictures and a phone call.

booksontrains January 5 2008, 13:10:00 UTC

too bad your old hard drive is PATA and your computer only takes SATA drives

eventide January 5 2008, 15:43:46 UTC

how do you know that for certain...?

booksontrains January 5 2008, 22:40:38 UTC

Because your old computer was around the age of mine - I remember this the last time we talked. I'm guessing your old computer is from 2000-2002; every computer from this era uses a PATA or ATA interface and hence your drive and interface on your old motherboard use PATA.

Your new computer I think around 2005 or so is surely SATA, it's been the standard since 2003 I believe -- hence your broken drive is SATA and the connection(s) on your motherboard are SATA as well. Now if you told me you build your own computer there is a chance of their being a PATA port on your current motherboard. However, I'm quite certain that an inexpensive HP or equivalent brand has at most one or two SATA ports. If you provide me the model # I can tell you for certain.

tsumik January 5 2008, 14:01:23 UTC

If needed I can call and walk you through it. it really shouldn't be too hard. I've worked tech support in college and have a A+ system certification.

no51 January 5 2008, 18:56:31 UTC

i can do it.

eventide January 7 2008, 02:13:17 UTC

YAY! i should get my replacement drive on tuesday or wednesday. i am just getting seagate to replace my drive and then we can swap the old one for the new one. and i'll just get my old old one backed up on CD sometime later on. could you possibly help me wednesday or thursday?

no51 January 7 2008, 03:09:21 UTC

either day is good for me.