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PoliticAverse

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3. Yes 2.5" drives (and smaller) are for laptops although SSDs are 2.5" in desktop...

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Original post)

Sun Jun 6, 2021, 08:46 PM

Jun 2021

and can be used in place of the standard 3.5" drive in desktops with a bracket that holds the 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay.

As to drive recovery, yes you can put it in a docking station to see if the contents can be read. Also if you have another compute and a spare USB flash drive you can make a bootable USB drive with repair software on it and boot your old computer off the USB drive and use it to read/repair the old hard drive.

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Neighborhood power failure while we were gone. [View all] keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 OP

This could send you pretty far down a rabbit hole but... EarlG Jun 2021 #1

Thanks for the help... See my #5. keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 #6

FYI EarlG Jun 2021 #9

Very likely nothing that destroyed your data happened MerryHolidays Jun 2021 #2

Thanks for the help... See my #5. keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 #7

Yes 2.5" drives (and smaller) are for laptops although SSDs are 2.5" in desktop... PoliticAverse Jun 2021 #3

Thanks for the help, folks. keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 #5

If it's an older unit, you might have an emergency boot CD around, instead of ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2021 #4

Thanks for the help... See my #5. keithbvadu2 Jun 2021 #8