Getting data off an old laptop?

lionelflare

My laptop died a few weeks ago and I now have a brand spanking new one. I realy need to be able to get all the data from my old hard drive and wondered if there was a way of doing it? I took it in to a local repair shop and he said he could do it but would cost me £100!

Somebody told me that you can buy a convertor that allows me to take the harddisk out of my old laptop and connect it to my new one but he didnt realy know what I needed to buy.


The old laptop will not power up and every time I try and put the power cable in it just gives off a strange smell so I guess that it isnt very healthy!

Any help that will save me that £100 would be greatly appreciated

lionelflare

Cheers for the help Ill have a look in a minute.

How do I know what type I need? Will it say somewhere on the harddrive? Will this caddy thing mean that I can use it as an external harddrive?

Sorry for all the questions but Im not too clued up on this sort of thing!!

Donnie

lionelflare wrote: »

Will this caddy thing mean that I can use it as an external harddrive?

Yes I paid around three pounds for my enclosure.

One hundred pounds A thirty minute job, including moving the stuff over from your old laptop.

lionelflare

Can anyone tell me if this is the right thing. I have opened my old laptop and found that it is a SATA connection so hopefully this will work!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Super-sexy-2-5-SATA-External-Hard-Drive-enclosure-USB2_W0QQitemZ130259937397QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130259937397&_trkparms=72%3A1301|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Donnie

Yes, that's fine.