recovering data from one laptop harddisk to another

[egporter]

Hi,
My computer crashed (literally, three feet off a desk) and now my poor fujitsu is inaccessible. I have recently purchased a new laptop, a sony with both usb and i.link (ieee 1394). I have a lot of data on the old drive that i want to recover. Could anyone give me suggestions on ways to connect the old drive to my new laptop so that i can transfer the data and possibly use my old harddrive as a backup disk.
cheers,
Eldon

 

[MA5]

There are external HDD caddy boxes commercially available with USB, serial and parallel connections.
Best of luck

 

[Eguy]

Before you get your hopes up, that 3 foot crash off the desk probably gave the hard drive a concussion and is what made the fujitsu inaccessible in the first place.

Ed.

Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[19753]

use parallel cable link or get a laptop to pc ide cable connector if you can't use old laptop.

 

[Daveyboy2]

If you've got a PC laying around, get a connector kit from places like dcdrives.com. That way you can hook up your laptop hard drive to an existing PC - (make is the secondary master) and get the info you can. Last time I bought one - it was under $20.

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