Any USB2 drive enclosure will do.  As long as the old drive you're trying to
pull data from is a SATA drive, you might want to consider this bad boy (or
one like it at Fry's or whatever) as opposed to a traditional enclosure:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196&cm_re=hard_drive_dock-_-17-182-196-_-Product

You basically plug in either a desktop or laptop size SATA drive in the top
like it was toast going into a toaster...ummm...yeah, that SOUNDS like a bad
analogy :) but they work great.

Jim

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, AZ Pete <subs2@cactusfamily.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive should be
> ok. She bought a new MacBook and would like to copy her data from the old
> laptop. My thought was to take the drive out of the defunct laptop and put
> it in a USB enclosure which could then be connected to the new Macbook.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on USB drive enclosures makes/models?
>
> I'm very well versed with Windows and Unix, but I'm not a Mac person. I'm
> assuming that this scenario would work. Let me know if I'm missing
> something.
>
> Any thoughts would be helpful.
>
> Peter
>
>
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