My laptop has died and I've decided not to fix it. It is not the hard drive, but some other card. Anyway, I was wondering if I could take the hard drive and hook it up to another computer in order to get some items off the drive?

If I can do this, how do I do it?

thanks
Judy
Welcome to the CH forums Judy.

You can hook up your laptop hard drive to a desktop IDE connector using the adapter you will see here. Cost is about ten dollars.

Good luckJust want to confirm that this is the only way to do it?

I do not have access to a desktop that I can open up to install anything. I was hoping there may be a "sleeve" or something that I could insert the hard drive itself into and then plug into another computer, either desk or laptop.

Anything like that? Or am I just out of luck?

thanks in advance.

Judy
Quote from: mydals on October 03, 2007, 06:53:17 AM

Just want to confirm that this is the only way to do it?

I do not have access to a desktop that I can open up to install anything. I was hoping there may be a "sleeve" or something that I could insert the hard drive itself into and then plug into another computer, either desk or laptop.

Anything like that? Or am I just out of luck?

thanks in advance.

Judy