Laptop Hard Drive in a PC?

_Jimlad_ · 17 May 2006 at 20:36

my mates laptop has packed up badly, the hard drive seems good though and i need to get the data off.. how easy is it to get a laptop hard drive (dell) as a slave on a pc?

i don't know the make or model, early P4 dell is all i have.

Poolybit · 17 May 2006 at 20:37

Should be a standard laptop hard drive in there, in which case its a job of taking it out of the laptop and then getting the laptop harddard to IDE adaptor (you can pick them up easily enough) and its deteced as a standard IDE drive.

_Jimlad_ · 17 May 2006 at 20:40

ok cool, can i get one of these in on the hightstreet like ******s?

semi-pro waster · 17 May 2006 at 22:00

Should be pretty easy to find, you need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter and they ought to be pretty cheap, certainly not more than £10 which isn't all that much to pay to save your/his data

Artheas · 17 May 2006 at 22:14

I'm actually using one of those right now

Looks rather cheapo, cost less than £5, and i only use it occasionally. Works fine. Can get one from ebay. Just configure it as you would a normal 3.5" IDE drive.

Messiah Khan · 17 May 2006 at 22:47

OT.. Artheas you might want to read the FAQ about the rules on sig sizes. No more than 4 lines max

Artheas · 17 May 2006 at 23:04

messiah khan said:
OT.. Artheas you might want to read the FAQ about the rules on sig sizes. No more than 4 lines max

Looks like 4 lines to me..

Poolybit · 17 May 2006 at 23:05

Looks like 7 to me...

semi-pro waster · 17 May 2006 at 23:10

Artheas said:
Looks like 4 lines to me..

Formatting gives you 7 lines, it is different when you are typing it in the User Control Panel as the box is wider but it is definitely 7 on my screen and on others it seems. Maybe try making it size 1?

//edit Ok just checked your screenshot and it is 4 there somehow but definitely still 7 here. At a guess it may be something to do with using Firefox compared to IE?

Artheas · 17 May 2006 at 23:10

So sorry to the OP -

Poolybit · 17 May 2006 at 23:13

/Edit That's what I'm getting

PureAppleJuice · 17 May 2006 at 23:18

I see 7 lines too, 1024 x 768 on this PC.

fini · 17 May 2006 at 23:23

That's because your text is uber tiny. Try increasing your text size in firefox and it soon spills over into 7 lines.

fini

Poolybit · 17 May 2006 at 23:25

Is that a little red cross I see on his sig area? I think it is :rolleyes:

Artheas · 17 May 2006 at 23:26

fini said:
That's because your text is uber tiny. Try increasing your text size in firefox and it soon spills over into 7 lines.

fini

Well thats stating the obvious, the same would apply for anyones text sig. Its set to 'normal' so i cant see where the problem is.