accessing old T23 drive

[jcnj6]

Greetings

My T23 died last week and I found an identical replacement on ebay for less than half of what the repair parts would cost.

I have made regular backups, but the old system was Win2K and the new one is XP so a full restore of backups may not be the best route and there is still some non backed-up data on the old hard drive I would like to access.

Is there a cable or some other way to use the old T23 hard drive as a second drive with a desktop or the new T23 long enough to retrieve the data?

Thanks

Rich Johnson

[carbon_unit]

Go to newegg or computergeeks or your favorite online tech store and look fir a "USB to IDE cable".
This will plug into your hard drive and plug into the usb port on your T23 and the drive will show up in "My Computer" just like any other drive.
Or you could just put the old hard drive in the T23 and use it with win2k just like you did before the crash and then back up the data you want.

[Temetka]

I would suggest picking up one of those 2.5" USB hard drive cases. Stick your old HD in it. Close the case. Plug the cable into the USB port. After a minute Windows will show it as Drive D: or E: (depending upon your setup).

Copy your files over.

You can then erase everything on the drive. Now you have an external multi-gig drive to use when copying files from computer to computer. This works great in almost any situation. Especially if the admins had mode it so you normally can't save files (usually paranoid admins at universities and large corporations do this).

I picked up my case from Fry's Electronics. It hink it was around $25. Has cool LED lights that light up. Yay blingage!

[kyrotech]

am using this one:

Vantec NexStar External 2.5 HDD Enclosure USB2.0
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=142414

works great, been using it with a 40 GB HDD since march and rocks

right now its connected to my T42, am ripping some DVD

[MadeInJapan]

There is also a T series 2nd hdd adapter that slides right in the Ultrabay2000...you can find these on eBay for a decent price....very simple to do and works great!

[Temetka]

True. But then he is limited to using the drive only with machines that have an ultrabay 2000.

With a USB enclosure, files can be copied from and to nearly any modern machine with a USB port.

[jcnj6]

I picked up an enclosure for $30 at CDW and it works great.
I just doubled my hard drive capacity.

Everytime I hook it up I get a message that I should install a USB 2.0 port for faster access.
Is it true that these are older ports or is there a setting that needs tweeking?

The laptop also tries to "Autoplay" it at every connection.

Thanks
Rich

[Nolonemo]

Older ports. To get USB 2 you need to add a USB 2 PC card. Make sure you get a card that accepts a power cable plugged into the PS/2 or USB port for devices that need more power than the PC Card bus can supply (for example, external 3.5" drives or optical drives), tho you're probably Ok with a 2.5" drive w/o additional power.

[dsvochak]

Nolonemo is right on the nose. The built in USB ports are 1.1 I think. The only thing I'd add is I've seen a lot of 2.5" drives in USB enclosures that require external power when plugged into a USB 2 PC card but not when plugged into the built in USB ports.

As far as autoplay you can shut it off the same as you can for any removable device. Search "Help" for "autoplay" and follow the instructions. Just be aware that it's windows and shutting off autoplay may not be a permanent fix. I just ignore it and hit "cancel". When it starts to "autoplay" at least you know the drive is being recognized.