I had a computer a while back that went dead (i think it was just the power supply), but I parted it out and I have the hard drive with a number of files that I need. I have a laptop now, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to hook this internal hard drive up to my laptop (treating it like an external) and retrieve the files I need.
PLEASE HELP!
Get an external harddrive enclosure, then it just plugs in through USB like any removable drive.
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will any external hard drive enclosure work?
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If the drive is an IDE, you need an IDE enclosure; if it is a SATA, then you need a SATA enclosure. That's pretty much it.
From you post I assume it was a desktop system (and not a Laptop), so you would also want to make sure the enclosure is for 3.5" drives. (2.5" for laptop drives)
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