500gb media centre harddrive

[phatjam]

i am hoping you lovely people might be able to help me

i have a 500bg harddrive from a woxter media centre and the power supply has packed up and i need to move the files from the harddrive but the back of the harddrive is not the same as a normal connection on a harddrive , can anybody tell me how to power this harddrive please?

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome.

 

You would have to remove the hard drive from the case and either fit into another external case or fit internaly as a slave to another computer.

 

Once you remove the hard drive you will see it is either SATA or IDE connection.

[Synapse]

Any chance you can upload a piccy of the drive interface, or post the full part number and manufacturer. Both will help advise what to do.

[RandyL]

There are two cables from the hard drive.

 

One is to connect to the mother board. If it is a wide usually gray ribbon cable then you have a IDE drive. If it is a small cable you have a SATA drive. There are adaptors for the two but I wouldn't recommend it usually.

 

If you are talking about the Power Supply-PSU- that connects to the mother board then there are different pin counts. I don't know a way around that.

 

I think you don't mean power to the drive but rather the cable from the drive to the mother board. As you mention media centre I'm guessing it came from an old XP Media Centre and it's probably IDE.

 

Your other computer may or may not have a connector that is IDE. If not an adaptor or using another computer to burn to external media is your best bet.

 

As Synapse said a picture would help.

 

As Jelly Bean said fitting it to an external enclosure is a good option. Of course you would need the right kind. SATA, IDE or both.

 

They await your reply.

[Dalo Harkin]

It could be anything,

 

SCSI drives, most of which fit into an SCSI backplane do not have the traditional 4 pin molex slot for connecting power.

 

IDE and SATA do, so unless it has an adapter on the back which provides power too, making it hot swappable

(these are removable though)

 

To rule all this out as Synapse has said a piccy would be your best bet for an answer