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Hello:
I have a friend who has left me an external 2.5 inch hard drive that he can't access. I opened it and the problem is that the connection is Micro USB and I have the cable but I connect it via USB and the computer doesn't even notice it. The hard drive light turns on but I don't see it spinning, I don't know if it's because the cable I bought doesn't provide enough electricity or because the drive is dead :ugly: and only the light has been saved :facepalm:
On other occasions with other drives, I used to connect them to the motherboard with a SATA cable, and it usually recognized it and then with some small program I would repair sectors or extract the data, but of course, with this connection that is not like the 3.5 inch hard drives, I can't connect it to the motherboard. :llorar:
Next to this Micro USB connection there is another one with 12 pins in a row of 2. Maybe there is a SATA cable with this output and I just don't know about it.
Is there a cable to connect it to a SATA connection that is, to the motherboard? Maybe there is a Micro USB to SATA converter to then connect it to the motherboard?
Because I have been looking for a while and I can't find anything.
Any help will be appreciated as my friend has data that he wants to recover.
Best regards.
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Strange thing… Throw some pics at the little one to see what we're up against, and then we'll see what we can do.
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Well yes ;D I explain myself very badly. As you can see the USB cable is not the normal one, it's the Micro USB. I have a Micro USB cable but I connect it to the computer and it doesn't work.
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The cable you need and your friend should have provided you with, has a double male connector (use both connectors at the same time).
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I already have that cable. The problem is that when I connect that cable to the computer's USB port, it doesn't recognize it. That's why I'm looking for a Micro USB cable like the one I have, but with a SATA output instead of USB, so I can plug it into the motherboard.
I don't know if what I'm asking for even exists, to be honest.
