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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: tlccoppertop on January 23, 2009, 03:27:47 PM

Title: Hard drive read error.
Post by: tlccoppertop on January 23, 2009, 03:27:47 PM

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 runs on Windows vista.  I recently had an unrecoverable error.  Dell sent me a new drive.  I've seen in the other blogs where you can hook the bad drive up to a slave on another computer to retrieve the data.  What I wanted to know, is it okay to install the bad drive as the slave drive in my laptop along with the new drive in order to retrieve the data?

Title: Re: Hard drive read error.
Post by: patio on January 23, 2009, 05:36:47 PM

Yes

To be safe i would run all tour malware scans before retrieving/using any data from it.