Ciaran, wrong connection - please advise
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:52 pm
Aren't we lucky having a computer expert running the forum?
Ciaran, I've just made a major gilhooly. Fitting a new m/board and CPU into an oldish case I of course read the instructions thoroughly, unfortunately one of the problems I have seems to be that info sometimes gets garbled twixt eyes and brain.
The case front USB connection terminates in eight separate mini sockets rather than a single jobbie. When I came to fit these to the motherboard plug I misread the motherboard picture and put them on the IEEE 1394a header instead of the USB one (see what I mean about info getting garbled!). The computer booted up OK, complicated by having to format a new SATA drive, but eventually all was done and the new copy of XP installed.
I then decided to test the front USB sockets. I couldn't use something cheap and unimportant could I? It had to be my 250Gb external drive (Seagate Barracuda) which contained all, ALL my XM files plus lots of other stuff. Plugged into the front of it were two USB.2 memory drives, the first clue that there was something wrong was that they got rather warm! The second was that neither they nor the Seagate appeared on the "My computer" list.
OK, you can stop laughing now, it's not that funny!
The memory drives don't matter, they're cooked anyway. The question is, is the ext. hard drive salvageable? Or is there any way I can recover the info?
Sorry to be a bother.
Derek
Ciaran, I've just made a major gilhooly. Fitting a new m/board and CPU into an oldish case I of course read the instructions thoroughly, unfortunately one of the problems I have seems to be that info sometimes gets garbled twixt eyes and brain.
The case front USB connection terminates in eight separate mini sockets rather than a single jobbie. When I came to fit these to the motherboard plug I misread the motherboard picture and put them on the IEEE 1394a header instead of the USB one (see what I mean about info getting garbled!). The computer booted up OK, complicated by having to format a new SATA drive, but eventually all was done and the new copy of XP installed.
I then decided to test the front USB sockets. I couldn't use something cheap and unimportant could I? It had to be my 250Gb external drive (Seagate Barracuda) which contained all, ALL my XM files plus lots of other stuff. Plugged into the front of it were two USB.2 memory drives, the first clue that there was something wrong was that they got rather warm! The second was that neither they nor the Seagate appeared on the "My computer" list.
OK, you can stop laughing now, it's not that funny!
The memory drives don't matter, they're cooked anyway. The question is, is the ext. hard drive salvageable? Or is there any way I can recover the info?
Sorry to be a bother.
Derek