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fizzwheel · 22-03-06, 03:14 PM

Laptop disk drives take their power through ide cable via the motherboard. A desktop hard drive uses a seperate power cable.

So its probably not going to work in your desktop PC unless your motherboard will support power through its IDE or interface. Your still IMHO going to struggle to mount the laptop HDD into your desktop as the bays in the desktop case probably wont take a laptop HDD as normally they are physically tiny when compared to a desktop HDD.

You may be able to get an adpator or a caddy that you can plug the laptop HDD into that will allow you to plug it into your desktop PC to recover the data.

22-03-06, 03:14 PM	#4
fizzwheel Super Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Somerset Posts: 3,614	Laptop disk drives take their power through ide cable via the motherboard. A desktop hard drive uses a seperate power cable. So its probably not going to work in your desktop PC unless your motherboard will support power through its IDE or interface. Your still IMHO going to struggle to mount the laptop HDD into your desktop as the bays in the desktop case probably wont take a laptop HDD as normally they are physically tiny when compared to a desktop HDD. You may be able to get an adpator or a caddy that you can plug the laptop HDD into that will allow you to plug it into your desktop PC to recover the data. __________________ Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. K5 GSXR 750 Anniversary Edition