Hi.
So recently my HDD in my notebook died (reallocated sector count run out or some such). I don't have the money to buy a new one at the moment so I though I would salvage my old IDE 3.5'' HDD from my pc and use it to boot my notebook. Now I know its not ideal and I found people on interned advising against it, but I am desperate.
So I went out and bought USB 2.0 to IDE & SATA Cable. I am convinced I hooked it up correctly. However. The usb light on the Cable lights up red. And when I try to boot it I see for a second windows loading screen then a blue screen with text flashes too fast for me to read a single word. On the next start up it says (when choosing normal, or safe mode) that the error occurred probably due to software or hardware change. Now I thought it is quite possible as it is from different pc and it might be looking for something it could not find.
So my logic was ''ok then I just wipe the disk clean and put a new windows on it'' as I put a cd in the drive though it meditated for a while but then when choosing where to instal windows it sees my old dead hdd bud doesn't see the one connected via usb.
I ended up putting HDD back in to my pc to write this question here (about the only thing I can do on my old pc).
So does any one know how I would be able to make it work?
So recently my HDD in my notebook died (reallocated sector count run out or some such). I don't have the money to buy a new one at the moment so I though I would salvage my old IDE 3.5'' HDD from my pc and use it to boot my notebook. Now I know its not ideal and I found people on interned advising against it, but I am desperate.
So I went out and bought USB 2.0 to IDE & SATA Cable. I am convinced I hooked it up correctly. However. The usb light on the Cable lights up red. And when I try to boot it I see for a second windows loading screen then a blue screen with text flashes too fast for me to read a single word. On the next start up it says (when choosing normal, or safe mode) that the error occurred probably due to software or hardware change. Now I thought it is quite possible as it is from different pc and it might be looking for something it could not find.
So my logic was ''ok then I just wipe the disk clean and put a new windows on it'' as I put a cd in the drive though it meditated for a while but then when choosing where to instal windows it sees my old dead hdd bud doesn't see the one connected via usb.
I ended up putting HDD back in to my pc to write this question here (about the only thing I can do on my old pc).
So does any one know how I would be able to make it work?