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richie m

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    IDE Hard drive
    « on: September 25, 2009, 10:07:19 AM »
    I have a 2.5" 50gb Seagram hard drive from a broken laptop and i want to retrieve the data on it. The simplest soloution seemed to be to buy an akasa integral usb interface. Basically a small metal box to put my hard drive in which connects via a usb cable. I plugged it into my newer laptop and it loaded the software, then nothing. When i've looked in my device manager  it says 'This device can not start.(code10).

    Can anyone explain what this means? Is there another way of retrieving the data on this HDD??

    The laptop it's plugged into is a Compaq CQ70 running Vista.
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    richie m

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      Re: IDE Hard drive
      « Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 10:18:49 AM »
      Have just tried a Y usb cable on it to see if the increased power helped, i can hear it clicking away, but it's still not working!
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      Re: IDE Hard drive
      « Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 11:20:35 AM »
      Does that enclosure have a +5VDC input?  You may need to provide power through that in order to function properly.   BTW, the Y-cable was a good try.
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      richie m

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        Re: IDE Hard drive
        « Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 02:18:56 PM »
        Yes it does have a 5v dc input, i'll get a dc adapter and give that a try thanks.
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          Re: IDE Hard drive
          « Reply #4 on: September 26, 2009, 04:10:32 AM »
          Got an adaptor and that solved the problem, not sure why i needed it as usb voltage is 5v but thanks for your help!
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          Re: IDE Hard drive
          « Reply #5 on: September 26, 2009, 02:22:17 PM »
          Voltage is 5VDC, but Windows limits current to USB ports to 500ma (1/2 A).
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