Accessing a hard drive

[micker377]

I have a Inspiron 5150 that died. I have no problems working on laptops, but this is a different problem. I want to pull some info off the hard drive, but the connections of the drive are different that the "standard". It's not a "caddy", it's actually the back of the hard drive! I have adapters for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2, IDE, and SATA drives. Is there any way to access this drive?

 

[kestrel1]

Most Dell laptops that I have worked on have the hard drive in some sort of caddy. Are you sure that the drive is not held in a caddy or even just have an additional connector connected to the back of the HDD.
If this is not the case, what does this connector look like?

 

[micker377]

OK, you're right! It is an adapter (I had to use a knife to get between the adapter and the drive!). "When all else fails, use force - if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway!".

Thanks!!!

 

[kestrel1]

I thought that it would be rather a strange drive if it wasn't the standard type in a caddy or with an adapter, but you never know these days.
Glad you got in to it, anyway.