Hardware :: Putting A 1tb 2.5" Hdd Into A G Drive Mini Enclosure?

Jul 21, 2010

I've taken my G Drive mini enclosure apart, and I am pretty sure there is no way it is going to fit with the heat sink taking a couple of millimeters of space. But has anyone actually tried? I don't have a 1tb 2.5" hd on hand.

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May 5, 2010

External IDE drive,- removed from a dead PC. chock full of files. Mounted via USB perfectly on the 'Vista PC and I am pretty certain the drive mounted on new MacBook Pro running 10.6.2 (using Wiebe's external docking device) Many documents were present and viewable on the Mac

Drive then placed in plastic bag on counter in dining room. Two weeks later I purchased a USB enclosure for the drive. Installed easily. Powered up immediately, I can hear the drive spinning.

Connected to the same macbook pro to which the drive had, two weeks earlier been connected, and mounted. Except now the drive does not mount

Power is on. I can hear the drive spin But now the drive does not mount. Disk Utility sees the drive but it does not mount. Mac asks me if I want to reformat the drive as it is unrecognizable. Drive Genius and Disk Recovery see the drive but can find no files.

What might have happened? Did damage occur by putting in an enclosure? I have put numerous hard drives in enclosures and never had this problem.I know I pushed in the cables tightly and assume that the drive would not power nor the drive be seen if IDE ribbon cable and power line were not properly fastened. I am puzzled. Anything I can do? would like to save these folks' files.

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I didn't want to do a system restore if that's even possible, because that would lose all my data. My friend told me something about how if I put the drive in an external enclosure, attached it to my PC, formatted it as something I can't remember (that doesn't lose the data) and then run Recuva software to peal through the layers to get my data.  I am not sure that I am explaining the process right, I am going to have to ask him again precisely what he was suggesting. 

So I opened it up, took the hard drive out.  I tried to unplug my CD drive on my desktop PC and plugged the wires into that drive (since I didn't have any extra plugs in my cheap desktop), but the drive didn't exist when I booted up.  Besides, the next time I booted up, my PC's mouse and keyboard wouldn't work.  I had to unplug the (mac) hard drive, then unplug a few devices to get them to work again.  So it is apparent I need an external enclosure for this drive.  It is Seagate ST3250824AS, Barracuda 7200.9 250GB SATA 3.5 drive. The reason I am confused about which enclosure to get is that most drives seem to only have two places to hook up wires, but when in the imac, this drive had the two on the end and one on the side.  I don't know what is what. So will someone please save me from myself and give me some advice that won't cost me an arm and a leg?  I don't think I need the drive to be bootable, I just want to get my data off of it, if any exists.

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