Old Harddrive Access

[jolly geoff]

Hi all you techie wizards I have removed an old harddrive from knackered pc and want to connect it to my new laptop externally to gather some of the information still on it,is this possible and how would I do it cheers

[Zeuhl]

We have a 'dock' that does that for any drive

not sure how much they are to buy (not much i think)

alternatively, for a one off fee a local computer shop would no doubt use something similar to copy the contents onto another machine

[sunny-dave]

You need a hard drive enclosure like this :

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

(assuming your old drive is 3.5" and SATA connections)

[chrisgel]

You can buy an enclosure to put the hard drive in to connect to your laptop via usb.
The instructions are here.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5763959_connect-pc-hard-drive-laptop.html

[jolly geoff]

thanks folks, looks to be straight forward I will buy a IDE-to-USB cable, with power adapter and bobs your uncle cheers all