2.5 IDE cable or converter or anything!!!

[christie]

Have HP ze5000 notebook with crashed drive. HP sent me a
new drive and I desperately need my irs deductions off
the old drive. the old drive says no operating system
found loading the recovery disks will erase info. I also
have windows xp pro. the notebook i have has cd rom 3
usb plugs firewire plug and the works. I have access to
my parents desktop with 3.5 drive rather than 2.5. The
service people HP refered me to in Abilene TX want $40.00
flatout then $80.00 per hour plus any parts they have to
buy to transfer my stuff to my new hard drive. PS I have
(or had) 78% free space on my old drive. the computer
will be one yr old in October. HP sent new drive with out
hesitation but say they do not do data recovery. Tech at
service store said if it was his ge would just buy the
converter plug and do it himself!! can you help me?

[Nicholas]

Your problem is strictly related to a hard drive failure issue.
Take HP's advice for data recovery.

--=20
Nicholas

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"christie" > wrote in message:
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| Have HP ze5000 notebook with crashed drive. HP sent me a=20
| new drive and I desperately need my irs deductions off=20
| the old drive. the old drive says no operating system=20
| found loading the recovery disks will erase info. I also=20
| have windows xp pro. the notebook i have has cd rom 3=20
| usb plugs firewire plug and the works. I have access to=20
| my parents desktop with 3.5 drive rather than 2.5. The=20
| service people HP refered me to in Abilene TX want $40.00=20
| flatout then $80.00 per hour plus any parts they have to=20
| buy to transfer my stuff to my new hard drive. PS I have=20
| (or had) 78% free space on my old drive. the computer=20
| will be one yr old in October. HP sent new drive with out=20
| hesitation but say they do not do data recovery. Tech at=20
| service store said if it was his ge would just buy the=20
| converter plug and do it himself!! can you help me?

[Mark Dormer]

I assume your in the US from your email address
You can get a converter at CompUSA for $7

Just plug the drive into the desktop machine as a secondary, boot it up
normally and pull the data off

If you need more detailed info on how to do this let me know

Regards
Mark Dormer


"christie" > wrote in message
...
> Have HP ze5000 notebook with crashed drive. HP sent me a
> new drive and I desperately need my irs deductions off
> the old drive. the old drive says no operating system
> found loading the recovery disks will erase info. I also
> have windows xp pro. the notebook i have has cd rom 3
> usb plugs firewire plug and the works. I have access to
> my parents desktop with 3.5 drive rather than 2.5. The
> service people HP refered me to in Abilene TX want $40.00
> flatout then $80.00 per hour plus any parts they have to
> buy to transfer my stuff to my new hard drive. PS I have
> (or had) 78% free space on my old drive. the computer
> will be one yr old in October. HP sent new drive with out
> hesitation but say they do not do data recovery. Tech at
> service store said if it was his ge would just buy the
> converter plug and do it himself!! can you help me?

[D.Currie]

"christie" > wrote in message
...
> Have HP ze5000 notebook with crashed drive. HP sent me a
> new drive and I desperately need my irs deductions off
> the old drive. the old drive says no operating system
> found loading the recovery disks will erase info. I also
> have windows xp pro. the notebook i have has cd rom 3
> usb plugs firewire plug and the works. I have access to
> my parents desktop with 3.5 drive rather than 2.5. The
> service people HP refered me to in Abilene TX want $40.00
> flatout then $80.00 per hour plus any parts they have to
> buy to transfer my stuff to my new hard drive. PS I have
> (or had) 78% free space on my old drive. the computer
> will be one yr old in October. HP sent new drive with out
> hesitation but say they do not do data recovery. Tech at
> service store said if it was his ge would just buy the
> converter plug and do it himself!! can you help me?

If the drive has actually crashed, you aren't going to be able to read it,
so a data recovery service may be your best bet, and it's going to be
expensive. If HP replaced it, my guess is that they've determined that the
drive is, in fact, dead. Otherwise they wouldn't have sent you a new one,
they'd simply tell you to re-load your software, as their warranty would
cover their hardware and not your data.

If the drive isn't damaged, the converters from laptop to desktop are pretty
cheap, and you can transfer your data yourself.

[Pavel A.]

Yes. You can get barebone 2.5" to desktop drive adapter.
I bought it from Egghead two years ago for ~ $10 or so.
It is a good idea to connect the crashed drive directly to IDE.
this makes it easier to repair.
Don't use external USB enclosures etc, until you fix the file system.

- PA

"christie" > wrote in message ...
> Have HP ze5000 notebook with crashed drive. HP sent me a
> new drive and I desperately need my irs deductions off
> the old drive. the old drive says no operating system
> found loading the recovery disks will erase info. I also
> have windows xp pro. the notebook i have has cd rom 3
> usb plugs firewire plug and the works. I have access to
> my parents desktop with 3.5 drive rather than 2.5. The
> service people HP refered me to in Abilene TX want $40.00
> flatout then $80.00 per hour plus any parts they have to
> buy to transfer my stuff to my new hard drive. PS I have
> (or had) 78% free space on my old drive. the computer
> will be one yr old in October. HP sent new drive with out
> hesitation but say they do not do data recovery. Tech at
> service store said if it was his ge would just buy the
> converter plug and do it himself!! can you help me?