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WickSmith · 12-19-2008, 08:45 AM

raptor pa has the right idea. Most laptop drives are simply plugged in, and mostly to a standard laptop interface. Some computer shops will help you out with this if you are buying a new drive, but if that is not an option for you, go to cyberguys.com or a similar supplier and get an adaptor that will plug in to the back of your laptop drive and interface with either an IDE PATA connector on your dektop PC or a SATA connector is your computer is of a more recent vintage.

From there it should look like a normal drive. I had an external WDC USB drive fail on me and I had to rip apart the case and extract the hard disk. An adaptor from cyberguys came with both a data cable and power supply. It worked perfectly and I was able to transfer the contents of the entire drive over to another disk.

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WickSmith Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 7 OS: Windows XP	Re: Can i recover my internal HDD? raptor pa has the right idea. Most laptop drives are simply plugged in, and mostly to a standard laptop interface. Some computer shops will help you out with this if you are buying a new drive, but if that is not an option for you, go to cyberguys.com or a similar supplier and get an adaptor that will plug in to the back of your laptop drive and interface with either an IDE PATA connector on your dektop PC or a SATA connector is your computer is of a more recent vintage. From there it should look like a normal drive. I had an external WDC USB drive fail on me and I had to rip apart the case and extract the hard disk. An adaptor from cyberguys came with both a data cable and power supply. It worked perfectly and I was able to transfer the contents of the entire drive over to another disk.