{"id":987,"date":"2011-05-20T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=987"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:30:36","slug":"hitachi-travelstar-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/hitachi-travelstar-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitachi Travelstar disk,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have some problems with my family Dells. Dan&#8217;s Dell Inspiron has a Hitachi Travelstar disk. Given that the computer won&#8217;t boot, it&#8217;s a bit tricky to recover the data. So here are my notes.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have inserted an Ubuntu Live CD into the CD player, and it still won&#8217;t boot. I have plugged an external screen into the VGA port, no go.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we need to fix the computer before we can recover the disk? Disking say they can read the disk and cut a DVD for us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>My colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=2871288&amp;authType=name&amp;authToken=NYmn&amp;locale=en_US&amp;pvs=pp&amp;trk=ppro_viewmore\">Jim Barrett<\/a> has lent me <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111227234730\/http:\/\/www.chronos.com.tw:80\/Product\/E\/7\/Magic%20bridge\/maggic%20bridge.htm\">Magic Bridge II<\/a> which is pretty awesome. I have recovered Danny&#8217;s disk, now onto Sue&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080509085724\/http:\/\/www.hitachigst.com\/hdd\/support\/sources\/tsc.htm\">Hitachi Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207060430\/http:\/\/www1.euro.dell.com\/content\/topics\/global.aspx\/dps\/solution_station_home?c=uk&amp;cs=ukdhs1&amp;l=en&amp;s=dhs&amp;redirect=1\">Dell Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Disking, phone number : (01428) 770077<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=how+can+I+recover+data+from+an+hitatchi+travelstar&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">google: how can I recover data from an hitatchi travelstar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121023023850\/http:\/\/www.dataclinic.co.uk\/IBM-travelstar-and-Hitachi-DK23-laptop-hard-disks.htm\">Dataclinic<\/a>, they do this for a living, but their prices aren&#8217;t really consumer prices, and they factor on repairing disk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newertech.com\/products\/usb2_adaptv2.php\">Newer Tech USB to Disk adaptor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ooOOOoo<\/p>\n<p>It seems that USB to disk adapters are more common than I thought, I have added the Newertech and IOMEGA links to this page today.<em><strong> DFL<\/strong> 20 May 2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some problems with my family Dells. Dan&#8217;s Dell Inspiron has a Hitachi Travelstar disk. Given that the computer won&#8217;t boot, it&#8217;s a bit tricky to recover the data. 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