Re: Data Question about adding a second Hard Disk

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From: Rich Raine (rich_at_pantseraine.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 02:28:12 -0500

This would be my salvation! I only need the recovery of some of the
contents of the old laptop harddrive. If I secured the adapter to convert
to IDE and mounted it in a desktop would the voltages be the same? i.e. are
all these things standard?

Thanks again.

Rich Raine
Rich@pantseRaine.com
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"D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c0ki1l$11d5hj$1@ID-193095.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> "Rich Raine" <rich@pantseraine.com> wrote in message
> news:eqDlmhs8DHA.1356@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I would sure apprecitate the group's thoughts on this problem.
> >
> > My laptop stopped working due to a power problem. Before shipping it to
> > Sony I removed the hard disk to preserve the data. The fees to repair
the
> > laptop dictate the purchase or a new machine.
> >
> > My hope and best thought about how to retrive the data would be to buy a
> USB
> > hard disk case, insert the disk in the case and hopefully retrieve this
> data
> > throught the USB port.
> >
> > I've using XP formatted as NTFS, the Hard disk is a Hitachi DK23BA-20.
> This
> > is a pretty popular drive in the laptop world.
> >
> > If I'm dreaming, is there anyway I can get the data off this hard disk
> onto
> > a new machine?
> >
> > Thank you in advance. This is a big problem for me!!
> >
> > Rich Raine
> > Rich@pantseRaine.com
> > remove pants for email
> >
> >
> You'll need to get an adapter that converts the laptop drive to fit a
> standard IDE. From that point, you could connect it via USB with a disk
> case, or if this is a one time thing, there are USB cables that are
cheaper
> than the cases Or just plug it into a standard desktop computer using that
> IDE adapter.
>
>

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