Reading a laptop hard drive on another pc

[andyred]

Hi

Looking for some advice, laptop's died (motherboard), but there is some info I want to pull off the HDD from the laptop.

Does anyone know if there is a cable I can get that would enable me to plug this into my pc ?

Thanks

A

 

[Swissy]

I bought one of these adaptor kits a while back and it's helped me out many times, it's easy to connect ide or sata hard drives to your pc and salvage data.

 

[Almost_Invisible]

I also have/use an adapter like above as it saves opening the machine to connect up a drive. Laptop IDE drives don't fit straight into a desktop but if your drive is a SATA then it uses the same cables as a desktop so you can fit it direct (assuming you have a spare power/data cable available) to save time/cost of getting an adapter.

 

[Craft]

Assuming its SATA you could just remove the drive from the laptop (4 screws on the underside usually) and put it in to this http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...-external/harddriveenclosures/nov-exu22b.html

Then you just plug in to the other machine, take what you want and refit the drive to the laptop.

Laptops vary, but its probably something similar to this to get the drive out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg_EhfPcZX4

 

[andyred]

Cheers


Yes box says its a serial ATA drive. Will have a look at the links and see what looks like it'll fit ...

Thanks
A

 

[andyred]

Just an update - popped down to our IT dept and asked about a cable - managed to borrow a USB docking station from them to read it.