in fact a blind person could easily check and fix his own hardware components.
hard disks mostly require no bios interferances, computer hard disks normally are connected with the mother board and the power supply. only two ways could a motherboard detect a hard disk: 1. master/slave attachment. depending on the jumper settings printed over your hard disk and so once a blind could get the settings for the master and the slave statuses of his hard disk he could surely adjust his own hard disk. 2. cable select. a connection to the motherboard depending on the position of the hard disk on your middle or last socket of the data cable. be sure if your hard disk didn't lose its media, or booting sector, you could easily perform the job of copying the stored data as you like. hth --- Harish Kotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alpana > > You can install 2 hard disks on a system. In this > case, you can configure your old hard disk as a > slave. This has to be done at the BIOS level. This > means, you will need sighted help for it. > Once your hard disk is detected by your system, you > can copy from it as you normally access drives using > My-computer and Windows explorer. > Harish. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alpana Dubey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:41 AM > Subject: [AI] Old Hard Disk > > > > Dear list, > > Recently, i have replaced my hard disk as the > older one was making a noise while booting. Experts > said that it had been crashed. > > Now, i want to retrieve data from it. Also, i want > to know if it can be used as a secondary storage > device. How can it be formatted for the same > purpose? It showed that it was in a bad status. Can > it be repaired? > > Please guide me. > > Thank you, > > Alpana > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > subject unsubscribe. > > > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make > any other changes, please visit the list home page > at > > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make > any other changes, please visit the list home page > at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > Wael Zakareya http://blindPlus.wordpress.com http://blindPlus.blogspot.com http://www.NGOEgypt.com skype: m0100649426 msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] google: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 0100649426 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
