ddvmor
Active Member
Hi, all.
My PC has recently died. Despite my utter lack of skill with it's innards, I'm reasonably certain the problem lies with the motherboard and not with the hard drive - on startup, the hard drive never gets accessed.
I want to take it into a computer shop to see what can be done about it, but before I do, I want to back up the data on my hard drive - in particular the photos. I have a 350gb portable had drive and a laptop that I can use for this.
Unfortunately, due to the location of the screws, I can't extract the hard disk - my plan was to pop into Maplin or PC World with it and ask them if they have a cradle or a set of cables o something that I can use to hook it up to my laptop via usb as an external drive. As I can't get it out, I'm presented with a minor problem.
I can see SATA-USB converter cables on amazon and ebay and similar but I'm not usre what I need. My question to you all is this. Based on the photos below, are you able to point me to the right bit of kit (preferably from amazon as I can get free next day delivery!
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Thanks in advance for your help!
My PC has recently died. Despite my utter lack of skill with it's innards, I'm reasonably certain the problem lies with the motherboard and not with the hard drive - on startup, the hard drive never gets accessed.
I want to take it into a computer shop to see what can be done about it, but before I do, I want to back up the data on my hard drive - in particular the photos. I have a 350gb portable had drive and a laptop that I can use for this.
Unfortunately, due to the location of the screws, I can't extract the hard disk - my plan was to pop into Maplin or PC World with it and ask them if they have a cradle or a set of cables o something that I can use to hook it up to my laptop via usb as an external drive. As I can't get it out, I'm presented with a minor problem.
I can see SATA-USB converter cables on amazon and ebay and similar but I'm not usre what I need. My question to you all is this. Based on the photos below, are you able to point me to the right bit of kit (preferably from amazon as I can get free next day delivery!




Thanks in advance for your help!