How to Recover Data from the Hard Drive of a Dead Laptop

How to Recover Data from the Hard Drive of a Dead Laptop(2)

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1.You can find the adaptor kits on eBay by searching the terms in quotes in step 1. They cost less than $10 with shipping.

2.Fry's Electronics also sells a Drive to USB adaptor set, which connects USB to IDE (2.5, 3.5, 5.25)/SATA COOLMAX 2.5"/3.5"5.25" IDE/SATA TO USB2.0 CONVERTER - CD-350-COMBO at Frys.com it has been very helpful for me as a computer repair person, not to mention that I've loaned it out to co-workers until they finally bought one of their own.

3.You may also put the laptop drive with adaptor kit into an external drive enclosure if you have one.

4.You may need to adjust the primary/slave jumper settings on the hard disks (both laptop and PC). When attaching either in a USB enclosure or to a converter be sure to set the hard drive as a Master. Having it set to Cable Select or Slave will often times not work or not work properly.

5.When you are finished, the laptop drive can be secured in the PC case and left as a secondary disk on the PC, if you don't need it for anything else.

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