Hitachi Travelstar N155 Driver

1. Hitachi Travelstar N155 Driver

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To connect a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer you have to use a Laptop IDE Hard Drive Adapter. You can easily find this adapter on the Internet for $10-$15. This adapter is very handy if you want to scan a laptop hard drive for viruses and spyware using antivirus software installed on a desktop PC, transfer data from a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer or create a ghost image from one hard drive to another. I also use this adapter if a laptop hard drive has failed and I have to recover data from it. When you connect a laptop IDE adapter, a desktop IDE cable and a laptop hard drive to each other, make sure to connect pin 1 on the hard drive, pin 1 on the desktop IDE cable to pin 1 on the adapter. On a desktop IDE cable the side painted in red goes to pin 1. Most likely you have a SATA hard drive and it does not have regular IDE pins.

SATA drives have 2 flat connectors, one for power and one for data. If your desktop computer supports SATA drives and it has SATA connectors on the system board, you can connect it directly to the system board using SATA cables. If the system board does not support SATA hard drives by default, you can by a SATA PCI controller card. You install this card into an empty PCI slot on the system board and connect the SATA drive directly to the controller card with SATA cables.

After you boot the PC you should see the laptop SATA hard drive as a regular drive on your PC. Hey guys, I experience the same problem with one of mine HDD enclosures. I have 2 enclosures. For first one I paid about $25-30 and the brand name is Mapower (I bought in on newegg). This enclosure is very solid and works perfect with all laptop hard drive I put in. The only thing I do not like, you have to disassemble the enclosure completely to put in the hard drive.

I often use the enclosure for data recovery and need an easy access to the connector. For this reason I recently bough the second HDD enclosure. The second one is cheaper $15-18 (the brand name is Hotdrive), but it gives you much easier access to the hard drive, you just have to remove 2 screws. The second enclosure will not work properly with some hard drives. Sometimes I’m getting BSOD when I connect it, sometimes the USB device is detected but the HDD will not show up in Windows and sometimes it works just fine.

I guess it is not just compatible with some hard drives. So, when you buy an enclosure, do not buy a cheap one and read reviews from other users.

Drew, Make sure if the laptop hard drive is the only drive attached to the ribbon cable. It shouldn’t matter what cable you use. Make sure that you plugged the hard drive correctly. If you connected everything correctly, you should feel that the hard drive start spinning when you turn on the computer.

If it doesn’t spin then most likely it’s dead. It is also possible that your hard drive IDE connector is bad.

You can also try to buy a USB enclosure, just to make sure. It’s about $20-25.

You put the hard drive inside and connect to the computer via USB cable. Your last chance is a clean room recover – VEEEEEERY Expensive!

I’m not sure if then can get data from a hard drive that doesn’t spin, it depends on how bad it’s damaged. Steve, I haven’t created a guide for Toshiba Satellite A35 yet, but I can guide you how to access the hard drive. In this model the hard drive is located under the DVD drive. The DVD drive is secured by one screw on the bottom of the laptop. Turn over the laptop and remove a screw above the DVD drive. After that slide the DVD drive away from the laptop and remove it.

Under the drive you’ll find the hard drive. There is no cable between the hard drive and the motherboard. The hard drive connects directly to the system board. The hard drive is secured by 4 screws.

Remove 4 screws and slide the hard drive away from the system board to disconnect it. Now you can remove the hard drive. I would try to connect the USB enclosure to another working computer and see what happens. If you experience the same problem, then it’s possible that the enclosure is not working right. I have one of those cheap enclosures.

My home PC doesn’t want work with the enclosure attached, I’m getting BSOD. But my laptop works fine with the same enclosure. My second (more expensive enclosure works fine with both computers). There shouldn’t be any issues with connecting an USB enclosure to a computer, unless you have some strange problems with the hard drive itself or your enclosure is defective. I realize this post is old but one thing I didn’t see posted is this. BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THE PINS ON THE LAPTOP HDD!!! They are MUCH MORE fragile than their desktop counterparts, and easily bendable as you attempt insertion or removal of the adapter from the drive.

I’ve bent pins twice now, on two different drives. Luckily, they bent back quite easily; I believe you can straighten them out easiest with a 0.7 mechanical pencil tip over the pins. Just push the tip over the pin, and viola!, straightened. For those who may not know/or encountered these problems If it applies to you, please try these things out. My situation The DJ that is doing my wedding has a laptop hard drive that not even Best Buy Computer help center could fix.

They even charged his $60 for nothing. They tried everything. His OS was shot and it was looking really grim for his sake. The DJ wanted to know If I could rip all the music he had on it and I gave it a shot. He told me this and I said I would take a look at it. I found this device and bought it. Tried hooking it up on my desktop as the Master Drive and as a Slave drive hoping I could use a boot CD loaded with MISC tools to salvage whats on there.

Nothing was working. So I tried to tweak the Desktop system and ultimately it worked. The laptop hard drive worked with the following steps.

Mostly Suggestion 2 was the winner here. Suggestion 1 is something that you may not have known to do. Especially when this device had no instructions with it.

This website page help ALOT with the visualizations/steps!! 1) I had to bend back one pin on the adapter to accommodate the Desktops IDE cable. So feel free to do so.

2) I also had to disable the UDMA in the CMOS for this thing to recognize. I have a HD from a Toshiba Satellite that i am trying to connect to my (once was) Dell PC to retrieve any remaining files from a bad crash.

The drive seems to be spinning, although this could be my imagination, but I continue to receive an error that my cpu will not boot. It is looking for a either a cd-rom or floppy boot disk. I get the same results when there is no power to the drive but it is still connected via IDE. When i tried to connect the HD after i had booted, my screen screen froze along with the rest of my computer. It seems that my computer is not detecting my master hard drive when this HD is connected, even if it is already running. Do i have the connection wrong?

Is there something i have to do with my BIOS? Is this hard drive bad? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Jon, The drive seems to be spinning, although this could be my imagination If the drive is spinning you can hear or feel it if you touch the drive. Do not connect the notebook drive to the IDE cable with other device attached. The notebook hard drive has to be the only device on the ribbon cable/IDE channel. If you have an HDD or optical drives connected to the IDE2 on your PC, unplug them and connect the laptop HDD to this channel. When I tried to connect the HD after I had booted, my screen froze along with the rest of my computer You cannot do that, it’s not plug-n-play device. You have to boot the computer with the laptop hard drive already attached to it.

Jack, What about using a laptop or notebook to access the Laptop hard drive? It shouldn’t be a problem either. You can use an external notebook hard drive USB enclosure, you can find it online or in a local computer store for $20-30. Install your hard drive into the external enclosure and connect it to any working laptop (or desktop) via USB port (the USB cable should be included with the enclosure). If there is nothing wrong with the hard drive and the laptop is running Windows 2000 or higher, the external hard drive should be detected automatically. You can access it through My Computer and transfer all needed files. thanks for the advice.

I went and go tthe device and was able to get into two out of 3. Unfortunately the one i couldnt get into, is the one that I bought the device for. It is clearly recognized as a “fugitsu” mass storage device on my task bar, and as an extra drive in my device manager. For some reason, it doesnt show up as an extra drive under the mycomputer icon.

It is definately turned on, and sounds just like the rest that were able to boot up and be accessed without a hitch. Any advice on alternate routes on how to get into this thing, or get my computer to recognize it more? It seems like its recognizedbut only as a ghost. I would even copy and paste the whole thing if i could just find a way to interact with it outside of the device manager. Hey Jack, I’m not sure why this drive will not appear in My Computer. If the Fujitsu drive has any jumpers, remove them and try again. Make sure the drive is getting enough power.

I don’t know witch model of the external enclosure you got, but if it has two USB cables on one end, make sure both of them are connected to the laptop. Sometimes the power you are getting from one USB port is not enough to start the hard drive. Try connecting the same Fujitsu drive to another working computer, it might be some kind of compatibility issue between the enclosure, hard drive and computer. Take a look at the Fujitsu drive in the disk management (computer management in the administrative tools). Does the drive has valid file system?

Hitachi Travelstar N155 Driver

Maybe the file system is corrupted and that’s why the drive is invisible in My Computer? It actually uses just one usb for the power source and there are no other power options for either the drive, or Device. It shows up under computer managent,but only under device driver. Under Storage Devices, etc, I dont see any sort of way to access the drive even though it is consistently spinning. The strange thing is the other drives i was able to access last week wont even boot up now. I guess this is what my last question is.

Even if the drive is corrupt, there HAS to be a way within reason to copy it somewhere. Would it be a hardware device? Software program ilke Partitian Magic? There is only about 12 gigs of info on the drive. I am just trying to figure this out. Thanks again for your help. Jill, That’s right.

You can connect SATA laptop hard drive to a desktop computer using same data/power cables as you use for a SATA desktop hard drive. And what if I want to copy a SATA Laptop Harddrive on to an IDE hard drive-is there an adaptor for that? You connect both SATA and IDE laptop hard drives to the same PC.

Connect SATA laptop hard drive using regular desktop cables. Connect IDE laptop hard drive using IDE hard drive adapter.

Both hard drive should appear in My Computer and you can transfer data between hard drives. If you want to make an exact copy of the SATA hard drive, you’ll have to use drive ghosting utility witch support SATA drives. I moved my desk top computer to a new location.

When I plugged it in there ws no power, the light in the back flashes continually, but no power to the computer. I think the power supply is bad. I bought a 3.5″ enclosure and took the hard drive out of the desk top and plugged it into my laptop to retrieve the documents I need. For some reason, I cannot acccess the my documents file. Is there something I need to do so the laptop will see these files? Do I need to do something special to be able to download these files to the laptop one they are found? Both machines have Windows XP.

cj2600 Context: 2.5″ 80GB laptop SATA, not work in DELL dsktop, tried Ext Enclosure and internal adapter, help? Computer steps through “found new drive”, but NO SHOW in My Computer.

Drive shows up in Device manager, but no Volume info Press ‘Populate’ button but produce TYPE=Dynamic, Status=Foreign, Capacity, space=0 Drive shows up in Disk Mgr but no volume info. Drive shows up correctly in external enclosure on laptop ONLY. Tried other desktops machines, same results, no go Tried jumpers on all desktop drives, still no go.

Have data on drive, therefore, I cannot format drive. Comments are invited.

Matt, I have a lap top hard drive which came as an external hard drive in an enclosesure but now when i plug it into the USB port it does not get recognised. I can feel it spining up inside but pc shows nothing connected when i go to ‘my computer’.

If it’s a brand new hard drive most likely you cannot see it in My Computer because it’s not partitioned and formatted. Access this external hard drive through the Windows Disc Management utility. Go to Start menu, right click on My Computer, click on Manage and then go to Disk Management. Find your new hard drive.

Create a partition and format the drive. Zach, i have a hitachi travelstar sata laptop hdd and its totally different from the one in the picture on the top it has 5400 rpm and its 60 gigabites and 21 pins SATA drives and IDE drives have different connectors. I need help on putting this driver into my computer which is a windows 98 and this one is windows xp froma toshiba satelite pro can you tell me how i can put this in my computer Most likely you cannot do that. If your laptop came with Windows 98, it’s an old laptop and requires an IDE drive. You cannot replace your old IDE drive with a newer SATA drive. Hi, I’ve tried to connect my TOSHIBA laptop hard drive (SATA) to Deskop comp (IDE) using an adaptor.

Both (laptop and Desktop) have got Windows XP. When I connect the laptop HD – my Desktop does not see it. I go to “My Computer” and there is a list of all the Desktop drives only, but no laptop What am I doing wrong? Do I have to change any BIOS settings? Also, if I connect my laptop HD to Desktop and restart my Desktop – it will display message “No Operation System detected” or something like that Please help! So I have a HDD out of my Lenovo T60.

The drive seems to have failed, but I am not posative that is what the deal is. I have tried to hook into a desktop via mainboard SATA connectors and everything seems fine. Drivers are installed, device is working properly, and XP gives it a new drive letter and recognizes it as an alternate drive in my computer.

When I try to open the drive XP tells me it isnt formatted.it was the primary in my laptop, so it is formatted and has an OS on it any ideas??? I really need the files on this drive. Will a USB adapter do the trick, or is this drive toast and I am SOL? Jose, I have a laptop computer that I purchased, the laptop was given to my son he used for a few months and created a password to sing in, now I have the laptop back, but he does not remenber the password, is there a free program that I can used to recover the password he had. Are you asking about Windows password? Is it Windows XP? Start the laptop and wait until it boots to the login screen.

Now press CTRL+ALT+DEL two times (if you have user icons instead of two fields). For user name type: administrator Leave the password filed blank. This might work.

On some laptops the admin account might be not protected. hook the laptod drive in as a secondary, if you are running xp it should pick up the drive and try to scan it at startup. The drive is probably corrupt and the damage is where the drive keeps track of the files. Windows will repair the drive if it can and immediatly afterward you should remove anything you want to keep to the computers hard drive. You cannot boot a desktop from a laptops drive, they are too disimilar. Hopes this helps you, helped me about a year ago on a drive i had given up on. Hi I will gladly donate if I can get this Dell Inspiron 910 netbook working again.

I want to restore it to default factory settings but it does not contain an F11 key or a CD drive. All I get on bootup is a black screen because in error alot of system files have been removed. Your lesson about removing hard drive putting into a connector and joining it to my PC is interesting but will this do the job in that will I be able to restore the hard drive sufficiently for it to make the netbook work again? Thanks sheila. @ justimzera, i have a hp pavilion 6000 laptop.

It wont turn on. All it does is start up for literally a second then shuts down and continues to repeat that process until i fully take out the battery.

HP Pavilion dv6000 series notebooks has a known issue with the graphics card failure. Most likely your laptop doesn’t boot because of failed graphics card. If you have nothing to lose, you can try this method to fix the graphics chip: is there any way i can just remove mmy hard drive and use an adapter of soe sort to hook up to another laptop? If so, could you tell me how and where to get this adapter? Yes, you can. You can remove the hard drive and use an external USB adapter to hook up your hard drive to another PC or laptop.

You’ll need an external SATA hard drive enclosure for 2.5″ notebook drives. Noob, Is there any way I can remove a hard drive from a laptop and use it as an internal hard drive for my desktop? The laptop in question is the Dell XPS Studio 1640. My screen broke a couple of months ago and I just got a new desktop, I was wondering if it would be possible to remove my laptop hard drive and use it as an extra hard drive on my PC? Sure you can.

I believe Dell XPS Studio 1640 laptop uses a regular 2.5″ SATA hard drive. If you have SATA ports available on your desktop, you can plug the 2.5″ laptop hard drive directly into those ports.

You just have to buy a 2.5″ to 3.5″ mounting bracket to secure the laptop hard drive inside your PC, that’s it. @ jalascoo, It’s not very clear what you did with the laptop hard drive. Did you install OS on the laptop hard drive while it was connected to your PC? If that’s what you did, most likely it’s not going to work in the laptop. You have to install OS on the laptop. Here’s what you can do: 1.

First of all, test the laptop hard drive. Connect it as a slave to your PC. After that install HDTune software (free for personal use) and test the laptop hard drive. Select the drive you want to test (laptop drive), click on Error Scan tab and Start the test (do not check Quick Scan). If the hard drive fail test, replace it.

If the hard drive pass test, install it into the laptop and reinstall OS. I have a Dell Latitude D610. It had Window XP.

We also added Window 8.1. When we booted it would ask for one of two options and worked for both. But now when we turn on it shows Window XP momentarily and displays “Repair in Progress” and never ends. We kept is over 24 hours. We took out hard disk Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00.

We were advised to buy an enclosure we have bought Sabrent Model EC-AHDD enclosure and connect the hard drive and check what is wrong and may be able to fix the problem. We do not know how to make Sabrent enclosure connection to hard disk. Do we have incorrect enclosure? We want to recover data from the hard drive, if we cannot make it work.