![]() After reading similar forums, I purchased a USB adapter for my old HD. My Dell laptop crashed earlier this week giving me a “No boot sector of hard drive,” message when I tried to reboot after receiving the blue screen of death. My previous post explains how to connect a notebook hard drive to a desktop PC via IDE hard drive adapter. If you are getting “Access denied” message when you are trying to access your files on the hard drive, you’ll have to take ownership of a file or folder. After that the external hard drive will appear in My Computer and you can access it as any other hard drive in the computer. As soon as you connect the enclosure to the computer, the external hard drive should be detected and recognized automatically. If the computer you are connecting the enclosure to runs Windows 2000 or higher, you will not need any device drivers. You don’t need any external power supply for the enclosure because the hard drive gets power through USB ports. The enclosure cable usually has two USB connectors on one end, make sure both of them are connected to the computer. After that insert the hard drive into the case.Īfter everything is assembled, you are ready to connect this device to any working computer (notebook or PC). Open up the enclosure case and connect the hard drive to the connector inside. For this example I’m using an ATA hard drive. Now remove the hard drive from the laptop.
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