Buy some, then! Better safe than sorry! :)

And Greg, the IDE connections there would be Hard-Drive, DVD-Rom, and CD-RW......although it looks similar, the floppy-drive isn't the same connection as for the others (slightly smaller ribbon-cable connector).

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Originally posted by Greg12v
yeah big thanks people!

moral of the story! buy a surge protector!:lol:

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yeah big thanks people!

moral of the story! buy a surge protector!:lol:

glad to see your sorted:thumbs:

never mind sorted it now, had to run it as a slave!

well from the Motherboard ive got a CDRW, an DVD and FLOPPY and a HD, so thats four

Normally, you can connect 4 IDE devices up, so one of those devices you've got plugged in will have a "spare" IDE-connector on it......plug that into the drive (making sure that the dip-switches are set on the drive to how you're plugging it in - primary master, primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave), plug a spare power-molex into the drive, and power the machine up...

there is another one joined to the one that goes from the hd, but it goes to a DVD drive.

i have a CDRW and a sperate DVD

no mate, ur system is running one Hard Drive (with floppy above it).
Trace the grey IDE connector coming from the HD and see if there is another one plugged into the motherboard which is free?
If so (SWITCH OF PC FROM MAINS), then slot the Hard Drive from your old dears machine into a spare slot (below the HD will be fine) and plug the IDE cable in and power cable.

Switch power back on and boot up :) Then copy everything from the new drive to yours to make a backup of it (would be something like E drive, if you have a CDrom etc)


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ive got this inside mine

think ive got two heard drives running, but there is just one in the 'my computer bit'

do i just take the cable out the back of one of these and connect it to the one i need the files from?

Learn from this too, a power surge protector costs about £15, get one of those for the future :)

take your case off......and there should ... (if your only running 1 or 2 hard drives of your on) ....be a few wires ith a white connector coming out of the power supply......then plug that into your hard-drive.....then look for a grey cable...its flat....with a black connector on the end...it will more than likely llreay be pluggged into your other hrd-drive.....but it has more than one connector on it:P

so plug that into your hard-rive.....with the red line(on the grey cable)...so that the red stripe...i next to wer the poer connector plugged in:)

then turn your pc on:D....and.....copoy files:D

just swop em over?

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plug the hard-drive into your computer.....and copy drive conents onto your hardrive:)...:wave::thumbs:

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If the power surge hit the PSU it's likely that the PSU is fried, along with the motherboard. Nasty.

could have damaged the PSU so it isn't providing power to the motherboard. Or more worse the motherboard is fried. I had this happen once. Had to have new motherboard and cpu.

just do what modded_corsa suggested and stick it in your pc to recover any files required :)

now i surge protect my power supply and phone line cos i have had endless modems packin in thunder storms as well :D

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plug the hard-drive into your computer.....and copy drive conents onto your hardrive:)...:wave::thumbs:

my mums buisness got struck by lightening and this cause a power surge and blew the PC.

it seem s to run but it doesnt do anything. i unpluged it and assoon as you plug the power cable in the back the fan runs and it seems to be on, but nothing comes on the screen, the monitor is fine.

how could I 1) get it running or 2) get the files fro the hard drive as she needs these desperatly.

PLEASE HELP:(