Rescuing laptop HD

[Charles Jones]

I keep one of these around for just such emergencies: 
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=2020
It has saved me a lot of trouble quite a few times.

Ryan Rix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know the HDD is OK, it's just a matter of getting it hooked up to my 
> desktop computer. Are there any USATA (i don't think that's really 
> anything; it's just what is printed on the top of the drive) to 
> standard SATA convertor cables so I can just plug the drive in as a 
> slave and pull the data across...
>
> Sorry, a little confused and confusing atm ;)
> ~Ryan
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM, James Finstrom 
> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com <mailto:jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     You may wanna give the guys at red seven computers a call they are
>     penguin friendly
>
>     On 2/7/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com
>     <mailto:lisakachold at obnosis.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > 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 at gmail.com <mailto:phrkonaleash at gmail.com>
>     > To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at 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)
>     >
>     > --
>     > Thanks and best regards,
>     > Ryan Rix
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>     > Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008,
>     Erica
>     > Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.
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> Thanks and best regards,
> Ryan Rix
> TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
> (623)-239-1103 <-- Grand Central, baby!
>
> Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica
> Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.
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