How can i remove the hard drive from my packard bell club 79 computer?I have some pics on there i would like to put on my new pc but the old packard bell no longer connects to the net and as it had win98 on it doesnt recognise USB pens.

If I where looking for this, I'd hit up yellowpages.com and look for all computer shops, antique malls, pawnshops and flea markets in the area and start making calls to see if they have antiquated technology laying around.

I, personally, love tinkering around with these old machines. It's been a hobby since they where new! lol And I'm a pawn broker, so I'd be one shop that may have what you need. (I don't, unfortunately, I looked.) And you'd be shocked what all you can find for a quarter at a flea market or an antique mall.

Try this link
Packard Bell oneTwo M3350 / oneTwo M3351 / oneTwo L5350 / oneTwo L5351 All-In-One Computer Service Guide

Remove the hard disk and attach it to an USB hard drive adapter and then connect it into the USB port of a working computer. This computer will detect the hard drive as an external storage device, then you can open the various folders and files to copy your files to this computer or burn your data to a CD/DVD disc or USB flash drive.
Return you hard disk back to your Packard Bell so you can reinstall Windows.

ONE BAD LEAD?

try replacing all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your motherboard to hard drive one bad lead will cause a computer to shut down

make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ?

hope this helps

if you have a 3 plug ribbon, plug it into the new hard drive and plug in a power supply plug

This computer is capable of utilizing any 3.5" internal hard drive with a SATA interface. Just make sure you use the included software to install and initialize the new hard drive.

Uner the keyboard is what my diagram says. it also can be mounted just beside the battery so check both locations. wow packard bell is a old computer.. But still good i guess. Rate me I appricate anything above thanks for trying!!


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the harddrive is likely to be located with some screws

Remove these screws
There will be a ribbon cable and a power lead - remove these
you will then need to install this into your current PC.
1 - Do you have a spare line or space on an IDE line...
2 - You will need to establish whether you are on primary or secondary line, and then if you need to set your hard drive to be a master or slave Hard drive (recommned slave on the 'other' line to your master hard drive) - this will improve the communication speed.

hi abrb1220,

connect the hard disk to another pc, if the same error appears, means that the HDD is "dead", doesn't worth any effort because it's time is over.

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Hi, sounds like your hard drive is going/gone flaky...  & if so ya gonna haveta get a new hard drive & a Windows Operating System. 

Or take it to a good PC repairer, and get a quote and  explanation.