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1. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   No, no jumper …
   No, no jumper settings on SATA

2. amer2727 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   is there jumper …
   is there jumper settings on SATA drives?

3. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   I’m not sure if I …
   I’m not sure if I follow you exactly, but I don’t believe permissions will be a problem while booting.

   If you have an administrator account you can take ownership..

   Please see my support forum on my website for further istance

4. jimmyjam70 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   I connected a …
   I connected a laptop to a desktop copied a file from the laptop to a desk top and copied the files from the cd rom boot image to the laptop file and I wanted to know will it boot the image off the laptop hdd when i placed the laptop hdd back into the laptop or the permissions have to be changed?

5. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   I have a support …
   I have a support forum on my website, I would be happy to help there.

6. Zulermahpower on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   hello there i got a …
   o there i got a problem with my other Computer i just uninstalled vitsa and installed xp. But i dont got a LAN internet and he sound drive doenst work and i see many of my old vitsa thing are still in the hardware plaese plz me

7. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   You can get an …
   You can get an external enclosure for a 2.5″ drive.

8. InturnetHaetMachine on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   I think its HD-108 …
   I think its HD-108 instead of HD-018.

   BTW, do you know if this adapter will work for an external hard-drive enclosure, since I don’t have a desktop.

9. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   HD-018 adapter from …
   HD-018 adapter from geeks (dot) com – $2.99

   There is one pin I had to bend out of the way (or cut it off). You’ll see which one it is and I have no idea why they don’t do it

10. rockstar7600 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    where do you get …
    where do you get the adapter? can you link me?

11. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    It depends. Try to …
    It depends. Try to find a competent laptop repair facility locally and show them the laptop. chances are if they do much laptop repair they can tell you.

12. MichaelNTL on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    laptop
    laptop

13. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Is this a laptop or …
    Is this a laptop or desktop?

14. MichaelNTL on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    What do i do when …
    What do i do when my screen doesnt work, is it simple to fix or does it depend.

15. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    check out my …
    check out my website:

    add this to my website url (youtube doesn’t allow links or I would put one here)
    usb-drive-letter-missing.html

16. mellodave1 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    I have a sata …
    I have a sata laptop 60gb drive i just bought an enclousure for and after putting the drive and enclousure together my computer recognizes the drive, installs the drivers and says its working properly but does not show up on my computer to use the space

17. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    You have a couple …
    You have a couple of choices. You can either install in another PC, and it depends on if you have IDE or SATA hard drive. You can perhaps use SATA to USB adapter. You can also try a universal boot cd and USB drive to recover data.

    This is presuming that it is just Windows that is dead and NOT the hard drive itself.

18. g8zza21 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    I’ve got a compaq …
    I’ve got a compaq laptop and i need to recover all my data from it what leads do i need to get to be able to do this? I have been quotted £200 by some company to carry out this task and would rather have a try of doing it myself. Can you help please?

19. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Are you sure the …
    Are you sure the laptop HD doesn’t have an adapter of some kind on it currently?

20. jezzakal1 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    hey im trying to do …
    hey im trying to do the same thing…but my travelstar drive says that it is ide, and my 2.5 hdd external enclosure is ide, but the pins on the laptop…go in..(really old laptop)…so its not ide pins..its like..crocodile teeth…going in..haha..dunno how to describe it! … wat gives? do i need to open the hdd case…or wat?

21. halogenetor on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    thats easy stuff, …
    thats easy stuff, do that all the time. I thought you were going to do something like change the logic board on it (has to be same model) to get a ‘dead’ drive to work. Playing with platters also would be cool but that has to be a specialist job

22. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    The jumper is that …
    The jumper is that grey piece of plastic over the two pins on the far right of the drive.

    This type of drive will only connect to a desktop computer that uses IDE (NOT SATA) hard drives – or at least has an IDE cable. An IDE cable looks like a ribbon (grey in the video)

23. freeUSmind on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    How does one …
    How does one configure the drive as a slave and what is a jumper? And how do I connect the drive to my desktop?

24. FreeCompConsultant on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    No they don’t. They …
    No they don’t. They just have to recognize the file system. Windows 2000, XP & Vista usually use NTFS for the file system. Windows 98 cannot read that. But you shouldn’t have a problem between XP and Vista.

25. trialsman298 on December 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Do the machines …
    Do the machines have to have been running the same Operating System? Ie, a Vista Laptop drive onto an XP desktop?

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