Recent content by Laputa

Take the drive out and make a backup image first before doing any repair if the data is important. If you don't know how to do that, suggest you take it to a local repair shop to have it done. It probably take less than an hour to backup whatever you got in there since it's old. The boot...

Goodness 55k hrs!!! Good thing they no longer make parts for you to rebuild it:B Try Hard Disk Sentinel, it will give you a better idea of what's about to come on your drive. Maybe time to budget for another drive for Windows 10.

It's just a SATA drive in another enclosure. Bad cooling in design or by design. What do you think they now have their own data recovery service and charge a bundle for it.

Just lots of soldering work on the wires with heat shrink tubings. Looks like someone was very jealous that you spent all the time on the machine not him/her, but it got a fair electrical warning with that green live wire cut; lol:B Best bet is try it with another PS if you have a spare one...

Possibly the floppy drive or could be the hard drive is about to go.

Excuse me if I'm the only one seeing this? I haven't been back for a while or ages haha!. Do you guys sometimes see on the bottom that says you may not post new new thread, may not...may not, etc., but after refreshing then it says I may~?

Clonezilla can get the job done, but doesn't always do everything perfectly. If you keep everything in LBA, it should be fine.

well, just get a larger newer drive and clone everything over. then stick the new drive in and have the old drive as the backup if everything works.

If the Sony has the XP Pro key, and your Dell XP Pro CD is the OEM version, then everything should be fine. Just need to redo the drivers after everything is done. Those can be downloaded online at Sony's support site anyway.

check the jumper settings, and/or do a software sector wipe of the drive...then do a new install should get you all the space back

PM ya!

Hehe, thanks, but it's a challenge to get it working and pull the stuff off it. Whether it's a bad drive to start with is not important at this point. Drive has been opened and didn't see anything wrong, I'm suspecting an electrical issue. Question is any insights on testing this thing. I...

Doesn't recognize at all and I have tried different PCs. Anybody know how to test the circuits on this thing or know which resistor to knock off to do a hot connect. Anything that might lead to a solution will be greatly appreciated!

The repair you did might make things worse...never let Windows do stupid repairs.

Try a different adapter to see if you get the same problem. If you do, you have a electrical or physical issue to deal with. No software solution will get you around that since you will be dealing problem at the hardware level. If that is the case, PM me if you really want those stuff on it...