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I cannot have access to my Seagate momentus 5400.3 120 Giga. I do not want to loose all the pictures inside. I have asked a couple of companies, and they want to charge me with minimum 1000 Euros plus shipping costs. It' crazy!! I am leaving northwest part of Italy. Help me, please
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Momentus is a SATA drive, so you can put it in any PC that has SATA bus to access the drive.
If you can borrow a SATA to USB dock, you can put it in the dock and plug the dock to USB port on a computer to get your data out the drive.
One example for the USB dock is EZ-dock and you can search on Internet for the picture.
The disk-drive inside the enclosure is problematic.
Open the enclosure, to get the model-number and serial-number from the label on the disk-drive.
Then, access Seagate's web-site, to check the warranty-status of the drive. If the warranty still is valid, they will replace it, at minimal cost to you.
If the warranty has expired, purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and transplant it into the enclosure, to "resuscitate" your device.
There could be a million reasons that your getting this i/o error. First I would check the cable to make sure it's snug on the pins, and then my suggestion is to follow this link HERE and pick the question that best describes what your OS and equipment list are. This is a great spot to solve most of the problems, They also have software you can download to test the drive to see if it's dead or just loose.
What software did you use for the cloning? Ghost is the preferred method. Be sure to choose a disk to disk clone, not a partition clone. It sounds like you may have created a 20G partition and left 40G unallocated. Partition Magic may also take care of the problem, if you have access to a copy.
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