Laptop hard drive question

[timmymack]

My recent dell laptop basically blew up. it's old and instead of trying to figure out what went wrong and spending more money on it, i decided to buy a new computer. now the question is how can I get the data from my internal laptop HD to either my external or my new computer. is there some sort of casing i can buy to make my laptop drive external? I need these files. thanks in advance.

 

[Nitestick]

you can use a 2.5" external caddy or you can get an adapter to plug it in to your pc like you would a normal hdd

 

[Tox1cThreat]

yepp they make adapters to take a laptop drive act as either another internal drive or you can make it portable wiht a firewire adapter

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000067RRQ/002-4292173-7635227?v=glance&n=172282
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...2173-7635227?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=172282
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...2173-7635227?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=172282

 

[reggie_da_man]

I'd ge the USB one.

 

[Tox1cThreat]

^ why USB, Firewire is faster..

both will work Im just wondering why you chose that one.
(or were you compairing it to the internal connector version?)

 

[Nitestick]

because firewire isn't widely used and has more compatability issues compared to USB. i haven't really compared a firewire hdd to a USB one but i think in this case the speed increase is mostly theoretical rather than actual

 

[Tox1cThreat]

ok good deal.