Laptop Hard Drive

[BrandonTurner]

My bosses laptop hard drive got messed up. And he cant boot. So he bought a new hard drive and got it put in his laptop and windows installed. Everything is fine and dandy with that part. But he wants me to see if i can get any data from the old hard drive. Queston 1) will that hard drive plug into a normal computers ribbon cable? 2) It doesnt have any jumpers with it, so how can i make it a slave?

[alex_read]

Check out this page to see what I'm talking about here:
http://www.computerplug.com/access_removable1.htm

The idea is.... you can get a device which fits into a CD-ROM bay in the front of your pc which holds any IDE or ATA hard drive type you want, you just slide out & remove the middle part, shove in your bosses laptop drive & hook it back up.

As for the 2nd bit, not sure - you could try either looking the drive specs up on the net for this to see where the jumpers are, or try wiring it to the above & seeing if it's picked up as an auto detect or secondary drive already...

[si_the_geek]

alternatively you could send it to a company that specialises in that sort of thing - the company I work for sends drives&disks to them, and we always get the data back.

just search the phone book (or the net) for "data recovery" companies in your area.

[radarmy]

Originally posted by BrandonTurner
Queston 1) will that hard drive plug into a normal computers ribbon cable? 2) It doesnt have any jumpers with it, so how can i make it a slave?

1)No it won't you need to get a converter kit. They are usually like 10 bucks. Your normal 40/80 pin connector in your desktop is too big for the 2.5" notebook drive so it has a smaller one.

2) Usually laptop hard drives are locked in the "master" position.