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Computer Problems, Questions and Solutions! / Enclosure for PATA external disk
« on: November 27, 2019, 04:29:29 PM »
Hello, LzD friends. 
I have adream problem.
Some weird/bad/unlucky incidents occurred to a friend of mine. Her external disk died suddenly. She only cares about hundreds of family photos saved in there. They are valuable for her, as she lost her father recently. She took the hard disk to a technician, who tried to recover the disk's content, but unfortunately without a result. Her only hope was an old HP laptop she had, but the laptop could not even start to log in Windows. So the technician took off the hard disk, only to discover that it was a very old model (he talked about PATA instead of SATA). He can't help her because he hasn't got something for it.
My question: Can an enclosure make the job, as for normal hard drives? Can we just order the proper case, connect it via usb cable with a computer and see what is inside the hard disk?
Two models I found in Amazon (I'm searching in Amazon.uk, as if I order from US items won't come in time and there will be also extra taxes):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storite-Technotech-Aluminum-External-Enclosure-Supports/dp/B079NWHQXH/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=case+for+PATA+external+disk&qid=1574878419&s=computers&sr=1-11
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Aluminum-External-Enclosure-Capacity/dp/B000XPS3U6/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=case+for+PATA+external+disk&qid=1574878419&s=computers&sr=1-8
Thank you!

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Some weird/bad/unlucky incidents occurred to a friend of mine. Her external disk died suddenly. She only cares about hundreds of family photos saved in there. They are valuable for her, as she lost her father recently. She took the hard disk to a technician, who tried to recover the disk's content, but unfortunately without a result. Her only hope was an old HP laptop she had, but the laptop could not even start to log in Windows. So the technician took off the hard disk, only to discover that it was a very old model (he talked about PATA instead of SATA). He can't help her because he hasn't got something for it.
My question: Can an enclosure make the job, as for normal hard drives? Can we just order the proper case, connect it via usb cable with a computer and see what is inside the hard disk?
Two models I found in Amazon (I'm searching in Amazon.uk, as if I order from US items won't come in time and there will be also extra taxes):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storite-Technotech-Aluminum-External-Enclosure-Supports/dp/B079NWHQXH/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=case+for+PATA+external+disk&qid=1574878419&s=computers&sr=1-11
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Aluminum-External-Enclosure-Capacity/dp/B000XPS3U6/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=case+for+PATA+external+disk&qid=1574878419&s=computers&sr=1-8
Thank you!