data recovery

eltoro

Please any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. My laptop just broke down but the hard drive is still intact. I have bought a new pc and would like to recover my data from the old laptop's hard drive.

Is there some kind of adapter or something i can connect the old laptop hardrive to in order to gain access to the drive and recover my files?

thanks

jdog29

What your looking for is a 2.5 inch laptop drive convertor to 3.5 IDE . There are plenty online. Do a google search. Here is one I have found. Good Luck.

JDog

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=CBL


Edit: You can also find a 2.5 hard drive external enclosure USB 2.0 interface. And from there hook that drive up like an external hard drive to new computer and retrieve the data. This might be the way to go, and then you could wipe that laptop drive and keep it in the shell and use it as an external backup drive.

johnnynodough

Look for a 2.5" USB HDD enclosure, there all over the place. I would recomened getting a USB2.0, much faster then good ol USB 1, but it will require a power supply, and costs a bit more.

LIke this one here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Slim-Blue-USB-2-0-laptop-HDD-enclosure_W0QQitemZ6801496605QQcategoryZ74949QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

eltoro

Thanks a million for your reply jdog.

I am gonna search for the converter online now

JDMurray

Yes, the easiest way to access the drive is to install it into an external drive enclosure with a USB 2.0 and/or Firewire800 (IEEE 1394B) interface.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/directron/firewirevsusba.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,827981,00.asp