Laptop Hard drive in desktop pc

My laptop just died on me, and i need to rescue some of the data from the hard drive. ive read a few sites and discovered i can connect the drive inside my desktop, so i went out and got a cable to do so, but now im home and have poped open my desktop and im totally lost as to what and how to do it. also i have noticed my laptop drive appears to have no jumper switch.

Any help on this subject would be most appreciated.

cheers.

Dan.

 

ok hook the ide cable the comes from the blue slot to the h-d and pray it boots lol

 

blue slot?

 

maybe ur mobo is diff....follow the ide cable that is plugged into ur harddrive now and just swap em

 

Tried it, with no joy. it got as far as that black and white screen at the start, then asked me to insert a boot disk in the floppy drive. i also tried putting it in where the CD player was plugged in to the mother board, and it booted up, but no sign of the laptop drive.

any other ideas anyone????

 

I would look into getting a case for it and make an external drive. Don't know if they make them for laptop drives, but it seems plausable.

 

Have you thought of an 'USB Data Transfer Cable' when you purchase cable it comes with software and instructions, hook up both coms via USB and away you go , impressive and simple to use , a drag and drop operation.

 

Installing your laptop drive as the master and your existing desktop hard drive as the slave might work. Bazza

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cheers for the help. sorted it now.
Thanks
dan

 

Tiny bit late, but for future reference, there's always Knoppix as a recovery tool. For those of you unfamiliar, it's a version of Linux that boots from a CD. As I understand the latest version 3.8 can now read and write to NTFS partitions. Tom's Hardware has an article about using Knoppix for data recovery. www.tomshardware.com -- article search for Knoppix. Knoppix can be downloaded from www.knopper.net

 

How did you do it? Might help uis with laptops, in future. Bazza

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I've ran into this situation about a few dozen times. I usually disconnect my cdrom drives and plug the special ribbon cable to the freed up ide connector on the mainboard. Then I hook up the connector to the laptop drive. Making sure I have the power connector connected. Then I boot the computer, go to bios and see if the bios sees both drives. If not, I turn off the computer, and flip the connector (where it is connected to the laptop drive) around, then boot back into bios. Once I see both drives, I'm set.

Been doing this for about a year now. (few dozen times...mabe more )