Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

[CHRISEC]

Hi there.

My laptops been recently damaged (mainly the screen) and Ive got a few things on the hard drive that i need to transfer to a my desktop PC (cant see enough of screen to do it a normal way). Ive taken the laptops hard drive out (its a Hitachi Travelstar HTS428060F9AT00 60 GB) but now dont know how to wire it to my desktop. Anyone any ideas?

Cheers

[këö¬t]

You'll probably need an adaptor, 44-pin laptop eide to 40-pin eide + power. You can get them off ebay for ~£6 I think.

Doesn't your laptop support 'firewire target disk mode'? Or is that a Mac only thing?

[mrbanana]

Get a 2.5 inch hard drive enclosure (external hard drive case) off ebay or scan. They're quite cheap. Then connect the enclosure to the usb port of your pc and transfer everything off.

[CHRISEC]

Doesn't your laptop support 'firewire target disk mode'? Or is that a Mac only thing?

Unfortunately not, although no idea if its only a Mac thing. Cheers for the heads up on the adapter, off to check now.

[CHRISEC]

Thanks këö¬t and mrbanana. Just ordered one of ebay. Looks like it'll do the trick.