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Laptop Hard Drive IDE cable required!!

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  • 30-08-2007 5:09pm
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    Guisseppeth
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    Help!!! I have just installed Pointsec 6.2 on my bosses laptop as part of a test before we release it to the organisation. Software installed fine and hard drive encrypted successfully. then the hard drive died. When laptop is booting up it makes a knocking noise which in my experience is generally a hardware issue but she seems to think its because it encrypted. Anyway I'm trying to recover the data.

    I've tried slaving it using a USB caddy without success. I've received some support from colleagues in another organisation who use Pointsec and thay have said that because its encrypted the only way to slave it is to use an IDE cable as they have experienced similar issues. My question is "where can I find an IDE cable that will allow me to slave the laptop hard drive"?? The hard drive is a Hitachi Travelstar and normal IDE cables are useless for this job. Any suggestions are welcome.

    Cheers


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    Anti
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    Please do not post the same post in multiple forums.


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    vir7ual
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    If you can send the hard drive to me i'll copy your encrypted files onto dvd and send them back to you.


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    Inspector Gadget
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    Guisseppeth wrote:
    My question is "where can I find an IDE cable that will allow me to slave the laptop hard drive"?? The hard drive is a Hitachi Travelstar and normal IDE cables are useless for this job. Any suggestions are welcome.
    Cheers

    Eh, there are lots of options - Maplin, Komplett, etc.

    Here's an example: http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=103373

    Seriously though, a couple of minutes with Google would have led you to the same conclusion?

    On a more helpful note, try running Spinrite on the drive and see if you can't get it going (at least long enough to get the data off)?

    Gadget


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    many laptops will take a hard drive where you would put a removable CD drive - not cheap and specific to that brand of laptop, but it's an option

    you can get 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor cables to put a laptop drive in a desktop

    if it wasn't propietry you could use a boot CD to access the drive, perhaps BART PE or PXE boot up ?

    other option is to image the drive with ghost ( or dd / dd_rescue in linux ) to recover later on
    or use the laptop diagnostics utilites to test the drive


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