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Old 02-02-2005, 08:45 PM   #1
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Dead Laptop, Want To Read Drive

My friend has a dead laptop and she wants to be able to read the information off of the hard drive. I don't know much about laptops, but could i somehow pry it open and hook the drive up to a desktop to read the drive, or would I need something else? The laptop had begun to smoke at one point, so they stopped using it, but could we get the drive out of there safely? Thanks alot

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Old 02-02-2005, 09:01 PM   #2
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You can try to read it. You will need an adapter to use it with a conventional external drive and a PC, like this....

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.as...=906&sku=17705

There is a good chance the HDD in the laptop can slide right out, it is probably under a small door on the bottom. What kind of laptop is it?
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