EGaD!  This varies by manufacturer....

Cannot post can be a variety of things:

a) video card
b) lcd
c) power supply

Google the following:

1) (drive specifications) + "drive data recovery"

2) (Laptop maker) + (version) + cannot post

3) (drive specifications) + SATA (or whatever your desktop card/bus is)

Before you mess with it too much, you might have someone with a test bench & experience look at her?

 
Also google for some extra parts or look at buying another one just like it off CL/EBay?

It might be really cheap.

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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:15:51 -0700
Subject: Rescuing laptop HD
From: phrkonaleash@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Hello,

Thanks to a general hardware failure on my laptop, it refuses to even POST.

I know that the HDD on it is still valid, because the problem was a cascading series of events (first LCD stopped working, then the wireless NIC, then the ethernet and finally it wouldn't post)

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)

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