RE: bad excuse but inquiry

["mag" iamiriam@xxxxxxxx]

Joseph,

Thanks for this info. It's been truly helpful. I appreciate everyone's
thoughtful feedback and concern. If I have come across as silly and flip,
then I thank the members who have responded in spite of judgments.

Mimi Gauthier LeBien



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From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
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Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 5:17 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: bad excuse but inquiry

Indeed it sounds like something along the line of mainboard or power
converter has become DOA.

>
> I have been able to locate what seems like the hard drive. I
> disassembled
> what I could, and pulled something out that looks a bit like a PC card
> but
> different, and says HDD on the back of it. I am assuming this is the
> hard
> drive.

What you describe sounds like it could be the HDD. Don't know who
Gateway uses for their HDDs but many companies use one of the
following; Toshiba, IBM, Seagate, et al.

If it has two rows of pins and is about the size of a half deck of
playing cards in a metallic case like housing then you probably have
the HDD or you may have the HDD caddy in a plastic housing - at this
point avoid static charges and magnetic fields so that you don't lose
any data that might be on there. If you have a computer hardware
anti-static bag from any past hardware upgrade etc. you may want to
store it in one at this point. (You could ask a kindly store clerk in
an electronics store for one they are planning to toss).

> If I could find a way to connect the hard drive to something, and
> get that data I would be a happy gal.

At one time I saw a special adapter to connect a notebook HDD into a
desktop so I know they were once made - I haven't looked for one of
these for some time - That's one possible option since it sounds like
there could be possibility of rescue of data on the HDD

 Also there are caddies housing that can make the drive work with USB
or FireWire connections essentially that's what the external HDD sold
in computer and office supply stores are but since full size drives are
cheaper it may be difficult to find one that accepts a notebook size
HDD the pin and power connections are different -

I'll continue to think on the problem and try to give some sound advice
to help.

Joseph