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**grimx133** · 11-20-2008, 05:58 PM

An enclosure isn't going to help at this point. Just to make sure I connected a laptop sata hdd to a desktop motherboard sata port, hooked power to it and booted up. No problems recognizing the drive. Only thing I had to do was take ownership of the documents and settings folder to access the old data. Might as well grab some of that while I have it hooked up.
You need to have the drive recognized by a computer, putting it into a caddy won't change that. You hooked up both a sata data cable and a sata power cable to it?

11-20-2008, 05:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,041 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: how to read laptop hdd on my desktop pc? An enclosure isn't going to help at this point. Just to make sure I connected a laptop sata hdd to a desktop motherboard sata port, hooked power to it and booted up. No problems recognizing the drive. Only thing I had to do was take ownership of the documents and settings folder to access the old data. Might as well grab some of that while I have it hooked up. You need to have the drive recognized by a computer, putting it into a caddy won't change that. You hooked up both a sata data cable and a sata power cable to it? __________________