How do you get information off of a dead laptop's hard drive?
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They sell external usb hard drive housing that takes laptop hard drive. You can plug your old hard drive into on of these. Or you can even get adaptors to make them IDE drives for installing into desktop systems. 10-15 bucks.
Got mine from ebay for 6
hard drives are pretty easy to swap from laptop to laptop. you should try a friend's to see if itll boot.
Use this, or something like this (print it out and take it to a store like bestbuy)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.as...
If you need any help with it, just ask
Yes you can do so if the drive is not really dead. You need an adaptor like this.
http://www.datapro.net/products/laptop-i...
But why do you think the laptop is dead? could be something simple such as a bad memory chip.
Read this website:
http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorial...
Look on eBay and buy a laptop drive to USB external case... you plug the laptop drive into it and it gives you a USB connection. So in effect you convert your dead laptop's drive into a USB external drive. Costs under £20 from Hong Kong.
Or you can get laptop to desktop converters... lets you plug a laptop disk into a desktop computer.
The above are true for IDE laptop drives. If your laptop is SATA (it's probably not... they are likely still to be under warranty) then the laptop drive will just plug into a desktop.
Why is your laptop dead? If the disk has died, there is no point in buying an external case... it's still a dead disk!
Does the HD still spin? If not, you'll probably need to refer to a data recovery service. This can get pricey. IF it does spin, you have a couple of options. You can open the laptop up and pull the drive out and connect it to your PC or another computer. There are adapters available for this. Or you could create a Live CD if the laptop will boot to at least the BIOS. You just need to set the BIOS to boot from CD. The Live CD acts as an OS for you and you can then access the HD to copy files over to some other media. I have used the Ubuntu Linux Live CD and you can get it at www.ubuntu.com. Good luck.
Howdy!
Yes there are adapters that allow you to connect your laptop drive to your system. The drive has to be on a channel by itself, since it is set as master. You can also put the adapter on a USB enclosure. Or just send it to someone that does that type of work. You can recover data... files, pictures, songs, but not programs.
Tom
Get an external Enclosure for the drive. There are several brands.. Pick the enclosure that can support your drive..
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