Laptop Hard Drive Data Recovery

http://www.PCRoger.com/go/vantec-usb-... - Find a USB hard drive adapter at the link. Then recover the data from a hard drive in a dead laptop the easy way; no need to install in a desktop PC anymore; use USB.

We do laptop hard drive data recovery this way all the time. Just because Windows will not run does not mean you have lost your data.

See my newer video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUVz_R...

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here we have the laptop turned upside
first things I like to do when working
top is besides disconnecting the power
of actually removing the battery
don't want any power going anywhere
inside the machine just as a precaution
the hard drive on this model is over
here on the right there are two screws
that we take out to get access to that
that we just a little bit of pressure
and slide it out here is our drive here
we have the hard drive out of the laptop
got a simple two-and-a-half-inch to
three-and-a-half inch hard drive adapter
kit we're not going to use the rails
because we won't bother to go ahead and
mount it inside the machine will just
set up temporarily this adapter is
designed to connect to the
two-and-a-half inch laptop hard drive on
the one side and connect to the IDE
cable on the other as a power connector
here to supply the the drive of power
and by looking at the device settings
here on the drive
we have installed this very small jumper
right here to indicate that the drive is
going to be configured as a slave the c
drive in the machine will continue to be
the primary ide drive and this laptop
drive that we're trying to recover the
data off of will be a slave
it is important how you connect the
adapter you want to make sure you line
up in one with the red stripe on the
cable on the IDE cable and as you can
see on the legend here on the drive in
one is here next to the gap next to the
device cable select jumpers you can see
that on the back here then on this
adapter also they have marked where pin
one is you want to make sure that the
pin1 lines up with the pin1 on the drive
and slide that together here we have our
laptop drive installed in the machine
the drive is set up with an adapter on
the IDE cable is configured as the slave
the c drive for the machine will
continue to be the primary dr will boot
off of just hook it up as a second hard
drive
make sure that we check the bios
settings so that slave drive is
recognized
sometimes it can be configured to be
disabled we want to make sure the slave
is enabled and then we can pick it up
inside windows XP here you can see our
explorer window the Machine boots off
its normal disk drive see local disk c
here is that laptop drive that we're
trying to recover the data off of we can
go in there we can copy an individual
file and paste it wherever you want you
can go in and use explorer with maybe
two windows open
copy a lot of files copy sub-directories
you can open up a command prompt you can
copy the entire contents maybe a dr e
into a subdirectory of dr see if you
have enough room available so that
really are a lot of options for data
recovery makes it simple you just
connect it up and you can access
whatever follows you need if the drive
means any kind of repair a check disk
something a little bit more
this is an easy way to do it you can
fire up the program that does the repair
pointed to the e drive and see what it
can do for you