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Title: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: RayB on February 05, 2009, 01:52:10 pm

Is there such a device what will let me take a laptop's harddrive and attach it to a regular tower PC?  (Laptop is dead and I need to copy stuff off the harddrive + wipe it clean before selling)

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: Hoopz on February 05, 2009, 02:03:53 pm

Yes, you need a hard drive adapter.  Find the size (dimensions) for your laptop drive and Google it.  I bought one a couple months ago that connected a 2.5 inch hard drive to IDE.  It was about $8 or so.

You connect the adapter to an IDE cable and the hard drive connects to it.  Pretty simple.

EDIT:  I'm getting an error trying to post the pics.  Here's the link.

http://www.ebest24.com/en/35-inch-ide-to-18-inch-hard-drive-adapter.html?language=en&currency=USD

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: ahofle on February 05, 2009, 03:07:26 pm

IMO everyone should own one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: knave on February 05, 2009, 04:17:54 pm

Quote from: ahofle on February 05, 2009, 03:07:26 pm

IMO everyone should own one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

I've been using one of these for a while now and it is great. I use a 500gb sata drive for all my backups.

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: RayB on February 05, 2009, 10:20:45 pm

Thank you for the links  :cheers:

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: Ummon on February 06, 2009, 06:44:53 pm

I just have all my computers on a network, though my back-up is slave on my gaming computer. Of course, it's only slightly more convenient in a situation like this.

Title: Re: Attach a laptop HD to a desktop PC?
Post by: richms on February 09, 2009, 07:07:39 am

I got one that came with a power brick that has a molex on the end of it which is great - has sata, small and large pata plugs on it - there was a molex to sata lead as well but I think I repurposed that somewhere else...

Anyway, watch the transfer speed of these - I had one before it which was so slow and ground the PC to a halt with full cpu on one core when in use...