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Old hard drive connect to PC
guy999
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Hi
Trying to find some old O2 emails, which i believe should be on my old PC which is dead, now scrapped. Was an old HP Pavilion from around 2003.
Anyway have the hard drive which i know you can connect to a usb to access files from it but unsure cheapest way to do as files may not be on.
Its a western digital wd4400-eb -11cpfo. IDE. 40GB
About 10cm wide by 2.5cm thick.
Can anyone recommend a solution for this ?
Many thanks
Trying to find some old O2 emails, which i believe should be on my old PC which is dead, now scrapped. Was an old HP Pavilion from around 2003.
Anyway have the hard drive which i know you can connect to a usb to access files from it but unsure cheapest way to do as files may not be on.
Its a western digital wd4400-eb -11cpfo. IDE. 40GB
About 10cm wide by 2.5cm thick.
Can anyone recommend a solution for this ?
Many thanks
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
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Have you tried googling "HDD caddy's"?
What PC do you have now? If it's a desktop you may be able to connect it to the ribbon connector as an additional HDD, dependant on the connector.0 -
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Use an old hard drive connector.0
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Thanks for replies.
Yes, aware you can use a HDD caddy and its probably a 3.5 inch IDE one but wasn't sure, didn't want to waste time/ money on wrong one, since its 15 years old probably quite rare now.
Only have a laptop now.
Will order Cisco001 recommendation
Thanks againA shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.0 -
The problem isn't connecting the hard drive but accessing the emails. If you were using Outlook Express unless you specifically saved each individual email to the HDD they're stored in a database file, such as inbox.dbx, so you'd need to find a way to open that.
Outlook and Windows Mail don't support DBX files, Windows Live Mail is no longer available.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
Tarambor, my plan after accessing the hard drive was to import the old outlook database (pst?)into a new version of outlook on my laptop.
Have done this before , but will need to google to see how to do it!A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.0
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