Male Speaker: Here we have the laptop turned upside down. The first thing that I like to do when working on a laptop is besides disconnecting the power, actually removing the battery, I don't want any power going anywhere inside the machine just as a precaution. The hard drive on this model is over here on the right, there are two screws and we take out to get access to that. Now we just put a little bit of pressure and slide it out and here is our drive. Here we had the hard drive out of the laptop we got a simple two and a half inch to three and a half inch hard drive adaptor kit. We are not going to use the rails because we won't bother to go ahead it mount it inside the machine will just setup temporarily.
This adaptor is designed to connect through the two and a half inch laptop hard drive on the one side and connect to the Ide cable on the other. As a power connector here to supply the driver power and by looking at the device settings here on the drive we have installed this very small jumper right here to indicate that the drive is going to be configured as a slave. The C drive in the machine will continue to be the primary IDE drive and this laptop drive that we are trying to recover the data of off will be a slave. It is important that how you connect the adaptor, you want to make sure you line up pin one with red stripe on the IDE cable. And as you can see on the legend here on the drive pin one is here next to the gap, next to the device cable select jumpers, you can see that on the back here that on this adaptor also they have marked where pin one is and you want to make sure that the pin one lines up with pin one on the drive and slide that together.
Here we have our laptop drive installed in the machine, the drive is setup with an adaptor on the IDE cable, and it's configured as the slave. The C drive for the machine will continue to be the primary drive will boot of off just hook it up as a second hard drive make sure that we check the bile settings so that that slave drive is recognized, sometimes it can be configured to be disabled and you want to make sure the slave is enabled. And then we can pick it up inside windows XP.
Here you can see our explorer window, the machine boots off its normal disk drive C, local disk E here is that laptop drive that we are trying to recover the data of off. We can go in there, we can copy an individual file and paste it where we want, you can go in and use explorer where maybe two windows open, copy a lot of files, copy subdirectories, you can open the command prompt, you can copy the entire contents maybe in drive E and your subdirectory of drive C, if you have an off room available. So, they really got a lot of options for data recovery and make it simple, you just connect it up and you can access whatever files you need. If the drive is needs any kind of repair or check disk or something little bit more, this is an easy way to do it. You can fire up the program that it does the repair pointed to the E drive and see what it can do for you.
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