Hi all

My 2 year old decided to pull my laptop off the kitchen worktop onto a tiled floor

Its now pretty knackered, in fact it doesn't do a lot !!

My problem is, i have a lot of info on the hard drive and i need to somehow recover it.

Is there a lead i can buy and then connect it up to my desktop as a slave or can anyone recommend a way to get round this?

Laptops off to the insurance company soon to be assessed for repair or beyond economical repair(they keep it and send me a new one )

Thanks in advance

Tony

 

If it will turn on and boot you should be able to hook it up to your desktop one way or another. A cross-over network cable would be best.

If not, you need to take the hard drive out, get and adapter cable, and plug it into your PC as a second drive.

 

jowl

Thanks for the reply.

It wont boot up, is there an adaptor to step the size down from a desktop, if so any ideas what its called and where to get one from?

Thanks

Tony

 

Tony,

Try this Microdirect cable.

They are basically, a 2.5" Hard drive (44pin) to 3.5" (40 Pin) convertor.

You could also contact places like aria (www.aria.co.uk)

One end fits your motherboard and the other plugs into the laptop drive

J

 

Just the job jowl

Thanks very much m8

Tony

 

No Worries


(just don't blame me if you blow the Desktop up lol )

 

Maplins also sells these adaptors. Got me out of a few scrapes in my time.

Ian

 

there are also adapters to take a laptop drive to USB connector, used for making portable external hard drives. Also very useful