You've done a big hardwork in making this video. The hardwork will forever pay off. Thanks a lot for this video. Pain, hardwork, and suffering all leads to success some day ! Thanks again.

I don't care what anybody says you did an excellent job first video that popped up in exactly what I need

Honestly I came to see how to get it done and you've answered my questions! nicely Done!

Thank you for putting this video together it helped me out a lot.

Not sure what's wrong with those 741 ppl who gave a thumbs down; let me guess, they all wanted a QUICK MICROWAVE FIX, without ANY substance to what they were trying to accomplish...just the how, not the why beyond the end-goal. Worked well, I OVER/INNERSTAND A LOT MORE bc of this man. Thank you Dr J.

Thanks so much. This video really helped me with a problem I have concerning an old hard drive.

Tysm, it actually worked! Keep the good content up!

You sound like Jeff Goldblum!!! Especially at 2x speed - it's like a Jurassic park/independence day deleted scene haha

Thank you for making this video

Thanks. I'm going to try this... I have a laptop that just stop working. It won't even power on.

Superb sir,very helpfull indeed,and thanku for posting the amazon kit,steve from the uk.

Nice work!

Thank you Sir you saved me bunch of $$$ very useful

what model of HP is that? can the software used to recover any data be used to diagnose whether or not the installed OS is still suitable to be copied to a new SSD /HDD? thanks for a great tutorial

While watching, I was praying for someone to hold the camera for you while you made this video!!! LOL

Thanks, all good

I got a marvelously simple adapter for less than ten bucks on e-bay. It uses two USB ports for both power and data. The problem is that while the hard drive out of my totally crashed Toshiba laptop is still just fine and opens ok, Toshiba seems to have some kind of proprietary file system that buries the document and data libraries in some sort of program data files so I can't find them. I've tried to down load a couple of "free" data mining programs, but you still have to pay for a lot of the data after they find it for you. My question is this: In the past, working with desktops, I have just replaced the desktop hard drive with the one I want to recover data from. If the OS is intact the box just boots up on the new drive. However, I know that laptops often contain a lot pf proprietary programming. I have a HP laptop on order and I was wondering if it would hurt to just swap out the HP hard drive for the Toshiba without harming the HP?

thanks, downloaded, cheat works!

This video is so helpful!! It saved my data a couple of years ago and it helped me again today!

You have done a good job for real,,I would like to know if it is possible to use that USB in flat screen tv to listen music from the drive

Your video made me feel right at home - thank you! 👍 The USB to hard drive (can't believe I was actually able to replace it with an SSD by myself) connector covers all but the big 4 pin part of the HDD. Do I need to get a different adapter? I'm just trying to get some photos + video files from it if I can. 💯

Hey, I purchased one of these kits in hopes of retrieving old photos, have connected everything, can hear the hard drive spinning BUT nothing is happening on my windows 10 pc, nothing in disk management. Is there a driver you need to download to make it compatible with windows 10 pc or did I just buy a dud..Thanks

thank you! I was going to pay $200 to transfer my files!

I have a HP laptop with a hard drive 1 (301) failure. I ignored it stupidly and now my laptop won’t boot up. Does this sound like the type of issue you’re referring to in this video that I may potentially be able to retrieve data? Through the little research I have done there aren’t many other sources suggesting this action so I’m skeptical to try it.

great, thanks you

Thanks for the step by step.

My HP Pavilion 20 All-in-One died, so I bought a USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE kit. The cables look just like you have in the video, so I plugged everything the way you showed into my new PC, also an HP, but a tower. I don't know if I was supposed to plug the USB into the front of the PC, there's 2 ports there, but I did and nothing happened, except that the hard drive I'm trying to get the data off of got hot and started to smell; the power supply box got hot too, so I panicked and unplugged everything. I'm guessing I did something wrong, I wish I could attach pictures of what I did and what I have. Please can you help! I have tons of pictures and files I want to get off that hard drive, which itself is fairly new, about 8 months old as the original one was replaced.

Do I have to make it a USB connection or can I just put the laptop ssd in my gaming pc and access it from there?

When I clicked on my user folder and my profile name it shows 0 bytes. Whats the work around for that? Hard drive is from an HP Envy M6 1125dx and I'm using a Byeasy USB 3.0 hard drive adapter to view files on another HP laptop.

thank you very much for posting cheats without viruses

would you be able to recommend a 4 pin power supply for the old style hard drives or adapters for the same

For reference my mother spilled water on my laptop and i was not notified until about a week ago because of finals, which i fear may have killed the hard drive altogether; I got to the last step at 12:25 but my hard drive keeps popping in and out of the computer (my laptop will detect for 5 seconds and then randomly say E:/ drive not found and I end up not being able to copy any of the files on Users. Additionally, when i try to access the files on the hard drive to check on Users, it says "you do not have permission to access these files ...", I'm not sure what to do at this point. I'm taking it to a repair shop to see if they can do something but I've had this hard drive/old laptop for 7 yrs and all of the files there are extremely significant. Any help if u can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Will this work if the laptop has the blue screen of death? My photos would still be able to be retrieved by this method?

where did you buy the power cable, What is the connector called, and how did you connect it to a power supply

amazing tutorial. tnanx a lot

Is there a complete kit to use this technique? Been looking for a while now, don't know if the kits that I see online are the correct one.

hi i have a quick query and would appreciate your guidance. i have a home computer running a sata hard drive. i have three old style pata hard drives which i want to recover some info from. i have ordered a sata pata adaptor so when i get it will i have to unplug my sata hard drive cables in my computer and connect them to the adapter then connect it to the old pata hard drive and if i do then should i set the jumper to master. or can i connect my old pata hard drive using the adapter into my computer without disconnecting my sata hard drive so in reality running two hard drives and if so what jumper setting should i set on my old pata hard drive. i hope you can follow this !!! many thanks

thanks

So what probably happened was the computer hardware failed. The drive was fine all along. If this drive were plugged into a the same model laptop like the one it was pulled from the laptop would probably boot up. Good video for people that have a laptop crap out.

My laptop lost connection out of nowhere. The error message said “err_ethernet_disconnected” and I followed a KZfaq tutorial to try and fix it. The tutorial said to go into system configuration and disable all services. My computer said it needed to restart after that. Once the login screen came back up after restarting, I typed in my password and it didn’t let me log in saying “incorrect username or password” I cannot log in and would really like to be able to get back in and recover my pictures/documents. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you!

My question is, if I’m able to recover data from the corrupted old internal hdd connected through the dock, and I transfer the data I want to keep to the new SSD, will I be risking corrupted my new SSD if I transfer the data that is corrupted from the old hard drive? Just want to be on the safe side.

Would buying an external hard drive case be basically the same thing tried it once and it work like a glove...plus, it gave me an extra storage device.

Holy man you are a life saver but how do i get that cable to transfer the files mine is kinda crashed and i just need a new hard disk clean the old hard disk and i need just the cable were do you get that

your camera resolution is not good but method is very fine and workful

But what if the hard drive has mechanically failed, can this still work? Supposedly my MAC DESKTOP hard drive can't be accessed even by the computer tech, the motor starts then stops and supposedly can't be accessed. Thank you.

Where can you find the needed adapters and power supply pieces?

Dr Jaynes how are you doing Sir. i need your help i want to recover data from my hard drives and i have watched your tutorials no i want to find out the power cable, is it suppose to have a power pack or just a computer cable that can go direct on the power adapter?

Advice please: how do you open windows 7 files on a windows 10 laptop. Computer company dumped the data from my old computer onto my laptop and now I can’t open the files.

does it matter if the hard drive came from a PC using Windows 7 and the new PC you wish to transfer to has Windows 10?

tanks, got one coming from walmart

But you have to have at least 3 gigs extra on new computer? Thanks for your idea help

where can I get power cable from?

its a handy tool for a person who has lots of pc's.

Hi...what if u have more partitions on ur hard drive..how to open other partitions on the other laptop?

hello please help me what is the difference between a sata/USB adapter with power supply VS sata/usb adapter without power supply?? i wanted to know if there is a difference because i have an hdd that wont work while im using a adapter sata/usb without power

I bought a AGPtek adapter, expecting tomorrow. My desktop wont boot so pulled the HD and going to buy a Lenova chromebook to connect the HD to using the adapter. That should work, correct? I'll also connect external hd to laptop to transfer the one HD to the external. Thanks

Can a hard drive that may have gotten wet be recovered? Laptop got wet not sure if hard drive did. Took off cover and took out hard drive the hard drive itself seemed dry.

How can I find any emails from a removed hard drive? I've looked and looked and cannot find any but have been told they are there somewhere. I used Outlook for my emails but I cannot find any so called PST files and I'm at a loss as to what to do? I had emails from deceased loved ones and also other important ones.

Hey! Nice Video. Just wondering: What operating system was on the old one? Really curious.

Are you able to link the items like the adapter to get and such?

Went to Walmart.com, ordered a kit for $14, connected my hard drive to my laptop and bingo, I was able to get all my files and photos transferred to my laptop. It really works. I have friends that want me to salvage files from their broken computers.

Can we recover diskpart hdd... using this recovery tools... pls suggest best recovery sw for data recovery

You did a great job, of explaining, in details, , excelent...

mine is saying "there are no partition on this disk to show" for IDE HD

Hi You may have saved me from a great loss but I am not sure. My problem is this: I had a 32 bit desktop computer whose power pack blew out. I had to buy a new computer in hurry and was forced to allow someone else to do that for me because of the circumstances I was in. They bought a 64bit HP computer for £500. (£200 too much in my opinion) I was horrified to find that when I got to see this computer the M/Board only had one SATA plug on it. I had hoped I could hook up the drive from the old computer, copy the files across I need and all would be well. Do you think adapters like yours would help? Or, do you know of any adapters that would solve any incompatibility issues between 32 bit and 64 bit drives? I am in the UK and finding help here for this is proving difficult but I would happily have something shipped if I had to.

Your situation seems pretty ideal and straightforward... but I'm afraid I have a worse one... I need to recover data and have one of those USB converter (Kingwin) things... but it does not make my 3.5 IDE come alive. I get the blue light, and the Laptop recognizes the drive, but the drive doesn't spin up (does spin freely), no clicks, it is silent... It asks me to "please insert a disc"... also, it thinks it has 0b used, and 0b free... of 20.4GB. I tried the fix for the Insert Disc, and everything my Google-fu could find. I noted that you mentioned Linux, so I think maybe you know a few additional tricks given the apparent File Structure being incompatible with Win10... This is an ooooooollld Win98se Master. LKG... ~2005-6 Drive Specs: Maxtor N256 / 20.4GB DiamondMax VL 40 5400 RPM (3.5 IDE) According to various recovery tools - it's in FAT16, and I am guessing that is why my new Win10 machine can't even with it... I have tried the basic Drive letter and such. No dice... none of the standard Recovery Tools work, and the drive has no value other than the data, so I don't want to Format it. I made a USB Persistent Bootable Ubuntu... was hoping maybe a Linux OS could read it.

What voltage is your power supply unit?

Hi, I have a problem. My laptop does not boot (a blue screen pops up)(my computer has windows 7), I might be able to fix it if I had the windows installation disc, but for some reason I do not have one. What should I do? should I use a USB to SATA adapter ? will I be able to have all my data back(for example my search history )? thanks.

If I were to power the hard drive using a pc instead of that adapter but still using sata and usb would it work?

Does this procedure work if I'm trying to pull files from an old machine that ran Windows ME?

LoL..I remember when my hard disk got stuck and data recovery services company wanting $150. But someone suggest me online available stellar data recovery utility. I recovered my data in just $49. Own my own.

can i recover photos from 5years back on a crashed hardrive my wedding photographer said she end it to someone but he did his est but can retrieve the pictures please help urgently

This is a very old posting . I hope your still around . When you use one of these transfer kits for transferring data from a old hard drive , wins xp to win 10 , no one ever mentions if it was a virus that crashed the PC to begin with . And whether or not your going to transfer that virus to your other PC as your trying to recover a whole life of pictures . I can replace hard drives and do small things on our home PC's . But some things the grneral public does not know . Soooooo , is that what happens . I am running Norton 360 on my PC . I hope some one can help me out with my questions . Thanks everyone ..........

When i plug in my sata hard drive it doesn't show up as a exernal USB devise ....and when i look for it in my device mánager and click properties its says location 0 .....and i cant acces it or the files ...what should i do

my Sata to usb 2.0 Cable arrived today and I connected it to the old hard drive I took out of my broken laptop, I got all the Local Disk (C) files which contained pictures, videos and Documents etc but I can not find the main Pictures , Music and Videos which appears in This PC part of the computer.

can i do this from your dvr hard drive ? to get my educational program ?

what is the transfer data cable called and where can i buy one?

My windows is deleted. Shall I recover my photos by taking out the hard drive out?

It's not a laptop drive, but I am using the same type of adapter to get access to my old IDE hard drive. I tried it on my Windows 10 desktop, but the file explorer stops responding?

A quick diversion by the camera at 12:49 where a message appears on the screen "Your PC is at Risk". Subtle.

you can buy a sata connector that will connect to the usb on any laptop or computer that will also power the hard drive to get the information off the hard drive what you're showing is a lot more steps than you need just to recover everything from that hard drive my thought your making it look a lot harder than it actually is

Will a MAC hard drive be able to extract data into PC? Or do I have to buy a used Mac to extract the data off my Mac hard drive?

I brought one of these and I can open my files that was on my computer but every folder doesn't show stuff, can't find any photos and doc or emails

Ok so I did all of that but can't find any pic and that's the hole reason for doing this.and advice?

Hey , you got a cool channel , think I'll subscribe .

Does this work for me?my hp laptop hard drive, mother board, cooling fan crashed one year ago.and I still have my crashed hard drive.it is going to work for me?

Actually my photos are in local drive E on my pc whose hard disk corrupted.So can I retrieve it back from my pc hard drive or will I get the data only from Local drive C?

This helped thanks

Hello, sir my hard disk had stopped working 2 weeks ago, on connecting to computer windows do not boot up and my computer freezes on motherboard menu. Sir hard disk make no clicking sound. If i follow steps in this video it will work ?? please reply sir

Sir i changing window xp to 7 only and formatting all data ...now from hardisk i got it or not ..through software mechanic..please inform sir

I can see the hard drive in device manager but I’m not sure where else to go to access the files? It doesn’t show up in my computer 👀

while this method works very well when i hook mine up and i find the files i want to retrieve and start the process the hdd disconnects from the system. i always have to unplug and plug back and it does the same thing. or sometimes it will say "os" not responding nd then freezes up then i have to unplug again. can you help?

Will this work if the hard disk has a HDD password?? I don’t want to buy the sata USB adaptor if I don’t have to

Hi thanks for video after I get into my old hard drive where would my old iTunes be located?

What if you do everything in the video and you can access the hard drive from the computer but can't find where your documents or pictures are?

I have the cables to do that. Now, if I only could find them all.

Where can i best ( most easily and cheapest) find a power supply cord with the 4 input female Molex adapter on the end like you show ?? Have in internal HD from an old G4 tower whose motherboard crashed, that i desperately want to try and extract photos from and looks like I could easily do this if i can find that power supply cord by using the instructions in your video

what cables do i need to buy

sir , will it detect my dead desktop HDD with these external cables on different computer to recover data from Easeus software??????

I've gone through this whole process but the files won't load. It keeps trying to load but is too slow. Help?