Rescuing laptop HD

Ryan Rix phrkonaleash at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 20:11:47 MST 2009


Hi,

See now I feel dumb ;) I guess better to ask people who know than fly by the
seat of my pants.
The only problem is that I cannot locate a power input that is identical to
the one in my desktop (or at all for that matter) on the drive. I will dump
an image of it somewhere when I get it (at a friend's house this weekend.)

~Ryan

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Jason <jasons at spatafore.net> wrote:

> I did a quick check to make sure I was accurate. uSATA is an SSD drive
> according to this article.
>
> http://www.pcper.com/archive.php?s=6&year=2008&month=6
>
> If you look at the connectors, they are the same as SATA.
>
> On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 20:01 -0700, Jason wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:15 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > > I don't have another laptop to plug this drive (it says on the outside
> > > of the drive uSATA ro something like that) into, and what I want to
> > > know, is what kind of hardware do I need to plug it into a a standard
> > > SATA bay on my desktop so that I can get out the data (which,
> > > oopsmybad, is not backed up)
> >
> > A SATA drive is a SATA drive. Unlike 2.5" IDE drives, which had a
> > different connector, all SATA drives have the same connector and you
> > should have no problems as long as you have a SATA data and SATA power
> > cable.
> >
> > You should be fine. Pop out the drive and see if it will fit. If the
> > connectors fit, I wouldn't be concerned.
> >
> > Of course, I have to disclaim...use this advice at your own risk.
> >
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