Copy data from dead laptop's hard drive

Lethal`

Lethal`

Lethal`

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Hi

Not sure if this is exactly the right forum, but it seems relevant...

I have two laptops here, no desktop unfortunately. One laptop's power jack is dead, and is going to be repaired. I want to backup the data first though.

I would normally plug it into a PC (with power adapter), but I only have another laptop available to use. Is the best option to get a USB enclosure and put the drive in there?

Thanks!
 
Yes My laptop does have esata.

I need to perform the transfer this weekend, so need to get something off the high street. (Yep :()
 
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Could try getting an Esata cable and taking the drive out of the laptop and plugging it into your other laptop via Esata port.
Depends how easy to drive is to get out...
 
Excuse my ignorance, but I haven't used eSATA before... will the eSATA connection supply power to the drive as well as a data connection?
 
Years ago i used a kinda covertor thing and apparntly it doesnt power just using esata alone you need power aswell, via usb or a AC adaptor.

Come to think of it might of been old IDE 2.5 and thats why it worked.
You would need a usb/sata 2.5 enclosure or an adaptor has that IDE/Sata sockets and usb on the other.
 
I'm assuming that both laptops could manage either drive.

Take the drive from the broken laptop and put it in the good one. Go to the High Street and pick up a USB portable drive for next to nothing per Gb and back the data up to it. Put everything back as it was and send the laptop off for repair safe in the knowledge you have all your stuff... :D
 
am58 said:
I'm assuming that both laptops could manage either drive.

Take the drive from the broken laptop and put it in the good one. Go to the High Street and pick up a USB portable drive for next to nothing per Gb and back the data up to it. Put everything back as it was and send the laptop off for repair safe in the knowledge you have all your stuff... :D
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Hmm that seems an awkward way to go about doing it, I have just backed up using an eSATA enclosure now :)
 
pespro said:
Nice one, did it need its own power then?
sure im getting mixed up with an old IDE 2.5 drive years ago.
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Yeah, but that might just be because it has some fancy backup button which I will probably never use.

The USB enclosures I looked at didn't require external power, so I don't see why a simple eSATA one would :)
 
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