I-rocks ir-9200 I have two 2.5" hard drives removed from Dell laptops that do not fit the subject enclosure. They are 11.11 mm (7/16") high and I believe the maximum the enclosure accommodates is 9.5 mm. The drives do have a metal cover measuring 3.175 mm (1/8") the removal of which would enable the drives to fit. I am wondering if the metal cover could be removed with out disabling the drive. I am reluctant to attempt this unless I have some assurance that I will not trash the drive. I am also wondering why these drives do not fit the enclosure since they appear to be standard 2.5" drives removed from a brand name computer. Thanks for your help. Nils Hokansson
When u want to use them them in an encrosure u first have 2 remove the metal bars that attach the hard drive to the laptop once the bars r removed it iz ready to fit in the encrosure
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I'm a bit confused? Is it a Laptop or a Desktop? It's posted in PC-Laptops? On the old HDD is there a Adapter that can be removed from the drive connection and fitted on the new drive?
Your hard drive's Master Boot Record might be the problem. If it was corrupted then the bios will not see a bootable hard drive.
Three things you have to do in order to solve this.
1. purchase a 2.5" external enclosure, remove the hard drive and put it in there. 2. purchase another 2.5" hard drive for the laptop and reinstall Windows. 3. once the reinstall is done, plug the enclosure into the laptop by the usb cable and copy your data to the new hard drive.
you can purchase a external usb hard drive enclosure for your hard drive either ide or sata. then take your hard drive out of your laptop and install it in the enclosure then plug in the usb cable from enclosure to any 2.0 usb port on a desktop or laptop and you will see a removable drive by your cdrom drive on the screen then you should be able to get your data
Remove the drive from the external case and physically connect it to your computer. Start your computer and once it boots to whatever OS you are running, run chkdsk on the external drive. You will find the most common problem is that the file system is corrupt from being disconnected at an inapproriate moment. The only way to fix the issue is to connect it directly to the computer without the usb interface and then run chkdsk. Once chkdsk completes, double check your files are visible in explorer. Shut the computer down and reinstall the drive in the external case.
1. purchase a 2.5" usb enclosure. 2. remove your hard drive and install in the enclosure. 3. plug the enclosure into a working computer and copy or move your important files onto working computer. 4a. reinstall the laptop hard drive and try a repair installation by booting from the XP cd. (if you are running xp) 4b. reinstall the laptop hard drive and try booting to Last Known Good Configuration. Press either the F5 or F8 key while rebooting to get to the menu. 4c. purchase a new hard drive and reinstall the OS using the reinstallation cd's
Rock 5.25" USB 2.0 & Firewire Enclosure
Like the HD506, the Rock 5.25" is also the bigger "brother" of the Rock 3.5" enclosure we sell but this version has the benefit of support your CD and DVD reader/writers and its got a built in fan as well.
try this model of enclosure it depends on hdd connection you could go for a diffirent model
hope this has helped you
Thanks for trying, but there are no mounting bars on the drive.
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