Laptop Disk drive failed. How do I retrieve the data? 2

[TechCarnivore]

I have a disk that failed. In the past with Desktops I have been able to mount the disk as the secondary disk on a working PC and retreive data. With this being a laptop disk, it's connection is different.

Any ideas as to how I can attempt to access the data on this laptop drive?

 

[Freestone]

Two options:

place it in a USB enclosure or purchase a laptop to IDE adaptor similar to what is pictured here:

http://www.datapro.net/products/1920.html

 

[lopes1211]

They sell adapters (even on ebay) for about $5. It allows you to hook a 2.5" drive to a regular IDE cable and use as a secondary drive in a desktop. Here's one:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=CBL

-CL

 

[vamike]

I've had two hard drives (3.5 and 2.5)go bad and windows wasn't able to see/recover the data. I had to boot into Knoppix live CD and recover the data.

 

[DrLar]

Another option, some laptop brands have their own second hard drive adapter, where the CD drive usually goes, instead of plugging the CD drive you plug a regular laptop HD, this way you could copy the files to the good drive.