Re: [RULE] Serial cable install

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 05:49 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:
> Steven Fullmer wrote:
> > Jason Bechtel wwrote:
> > > The only problem will be hooking up this old
> > > laptop drive to another system.  What kind of
> > > connector is on that drive?
> >
> > What do you mean by the connector?  The hard drive?  The
> > serial/parallel port?  Do you think I should just unscrew the
> > thing and plug its floppy drive directly into one of my drives
> > and see if it transfers?  :)
>
> Not the floppy drive but the harddrive. Open the laptop, get the hard
> drive out and connect it to your Athlon system. Downside: Many laptop
> harddrives (especially the old ones) have special connectors which
> won't fit onto the regular connectors in your Athlon system.

Even new drives, as far as I know.

I just did some data rescue for a client by pulling the drive from his 
unbootable laptop, and using a 2.5" HDD adapter to connect it to a 
regular 40 wire IDE cable. The adapter cost me about $10.00. It works 
great. I was able to access all the data and burn it to CD.

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