discounts on iMacs eg. Student

blackswan2

thanks for all the help :-)
looking on Amazon I saw this one for £18.40 which has a fan:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IT-735-Enclosure-External-Tool-free-Assembling/dp/B000V8KQE6/ref=pd_cp_computers_3

Sound okay?

InsideInsurance

Assuming your old PC is a desktop and not a laptop or ultra small desktop then it should be ok.

There are cheaper ones available given you wont need/ cant use eSATA but for the sake of circa £5 I doubt itll break the bank

almillar

That enclosure isn't suitable until you find out whether the drive you need to put in is IDE or SATA. That enclosure is only for SATA.
If your comp really is 10 years old, the drive might be IDE.

blackswan2

no idea what eSata is, just thought this might be more reliable as it has a fan and the cheaper ones don't, more than happy to save a fiver though.

blackswan2

think it's SATA - diagram on the back shows ports for SATA signal and SATA power, no mention of IDE.

Im_just_careful

The Dynamode does both IDE and SATA and worked fine for me.

You get both sets of leads with it.

However, the one you linked to looks a bit nicer !

Styling isn't the strong point of the Dynamode but I only needed it for data recovery.

blackswan2

bought an imac a few weeks ago but can't access old data - put old HDD in the enclosure I bought from Amazon (link above) - but there is no sound of spinning - assuming the enclosure is fine, what options does this leave me for getting data off it? In the old PC i could run "checkdsk" (to a degree anyway) so presumably at least some of the data is accessible.

Any help appreciated!!

almillar

Is this a laptop hard drive, or desktop hard drive in the enclosure. If it's a laptop one, some of them take the power from just USB, and sometimes even have 2 USB plugs at the computer end, to get more power. This mightn't be enough for some drives, especially older ones. Doesn't apply to desktop drives though as those caddies always have mains power.
If the drive isn't spinning it sounds like a power problem, but go ahead and try it with another computer.
If you still have the old computer, and a router, you can copy stuff over your network anyway, but USB is simpler for the time being.