Can I hook my laptop hard drive to my PC computer?

Question

Whenever my laptop starts it says that the operating system cannot be found. I just formated the hard drive and reinstalled windows the other day. It worked fine for a couple of days then started saying that it cant find the OS. I checked the BIOS settings and everything was fine. I checked the connection and it was fine. Can I hook up the HD to my PC to recover data, or what do I do to recover data? Thanks

Answer 1

Yes you can, you need a hard drive enclousure.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1204

http://www.xpcgear.com/enclosures.html

Shop around I found some for $10 that were usb enclousures for 2.5 inch harddrives.

Answer 2

First of all, make sure the windows CD is not left in the cdrom drive, or any other "bootable" disk for that matter. If there is one and the bios is set up to boot the CDROM first and the computer can't find anything to boot from the CD, then this will happen. Otherwise, you should try to do a "clean" install of XP - meaning partition & format - not just a reinstall. Make sure once again after you complete that to take out the Windows XP disk and then reboot.

Answer 3

computer complicated force is smaller than a operating laptop or computer, so im affraid you could not placed it into your computer, possibly any incorrect way round ought to artwork although putting computer one into computer yet i by no potential tried this in the previous. you could regardless of the indisputable fact that use a USB connection to it by employing putting computer force into an exterior case which will artwork those are available only about any computer keep for approximately £10.

Answer 4

Yes, but you have to buy an adapter to make it accept the standard size power and ide connections.

Answer 5

yes you can , i'd suggest you get a flip disk cable and copy your data across that way