Laptop Data Recovery?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 5, 2001 @11:46AM from the when-the-rest-of-it-is-just-inert-plastic dept.

Unhappy Camper asks: "I had a Presario 1800 laptop go bad. A couple of months out of the 1 yr warranty. The local Compaq approved repair shop blames a bad power connection at system board. Their proposed solution: $1500 replacement system board. I could replace the laptop for less. What are my options to recover data off of the functional hard drive? The computer works, but it doesn't get a charge from the battery or a wall outlet. Does anyone know of a $200 rig to allow me to connect it to a desktop IDE controller/USB slot/whatever?"

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How about $12.00 dollars... by RadioheadKid · 2001-11-05 11:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Well I think this is what you are looking for. All its doing is supplying power to the 2.5" connector power pins from the desktop PSU and converting the form factor of the 2.5" to a 3.5" IDE connector...I've seen these things in other places too, you can probably get them even cheaper...

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