Dead laptop - need files off hard disk

MORPH3US

Hi everyone,

I have a dead laptop with a lot of photos and some very important and confidential documents on the hard drive but I don't know how I can get them off the laptop hard drive and saved elsewhere.

Does anyone know how I can do it without taking it to a computer shop?

Could I somehow get a USB external housing and put it into that or something?!?!

Thanks

M

T4i

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/L-K-2-5-LAPTOP-HDD-TO-3-5-IDE-CABLE-CONVERTER-UK_W0QQitemZ6849539985QQcategoryZ31531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

MORPH3US

Do you think that it would be complex to get that working?

Would I just connect the cable to the motherboard and the hard drive, switch on and it would see it?

Or would I need to fiddle about with the bios etc?

Thanks

M

LULUBELLE_2

Sorry for the hijack, but are you the famous Celebdaq Morph3us?

Moss5

http://www.directusbstore.com/cnb/shop/directusbstore?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=35
I bought an enclosure from these people.
I now use it for back-up.

T4i

MORPH3US wrote:

Would I just connect the cable to the motherboard and the hard drive, switch on and it would see it?

Yes, Thats all you can do. BIOS will auto-detect it.

MORPH3US

Moss5 wrote:

http://www.directusbstore.com/cnb/shop/directusbstore?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=35
I bought an enclosure from these people.
I now use it for back-up.

My laptop is about 6 years old mate and isn't a branded one, I got it free.

I think it is AMD K6-2. Do you know it the hard drive would still work with this?

Cheers

M

T4i

If your laptop has USB ports then these will work.

Moss5

The idea of the enclosure is that you remove the hard drive from the dead PC and fit it to the enclosure. You then have an external drive with USB link to your new PC.
No point if the hard drive is suspect.
Laptop hard drives are often hidden under a plate and retained by one or two screws.
With the plate removed, pull on the tabs to detach.

james123

when my old pc died, i just unplugged the hard drive, then on my new machine unplugged the CD drive and plugged in the old hard drive, opened up drive D and there was all the stuff, not sure if you could do this with a lappy hard drive though?

GreenNotM

MORPH3US wrote:

Do you think that it would be complex to get that working?

Would I just connect the cable to the motherboard and the hard drive, switch on and it would see it?

Or would I need to fiddle about with the bios etc?

Thanks

M

If you do not have a free IDE Connector on your motherboard - You may need to unplug the ribbon cable that connects your CD drive(s) to the motherboard, if you use the ebay cable which seems the cheapest and easiest solution, esp if the drive is dead £4 vs £14 ...

If the drive is not found you may need to pop into the BIOS and set it to auto-detect. Don't forget to power the drive as well - use the CD's power cable if you have non free.

Good luck..