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November 13, 2008 at 05:52 PM
dotorperiod2

Connecting a dead laptop HDD to another laptop

by dotorperiod2 . Updated 17 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

I found this site thru a google search and will just post a question.

I didn’t realize it was more for an IT person at a company as I am just an individual person at home…

Anyway,

I have a Sager 5600D Modle laptop that will not boot up again. About 6 months or so ago I had to have the motherboard replaced as I had several Tax Files I needed so I just paid to have it replaced. I did some but not all of my taxes and then quit for awhile. In the mean time my son used it to play a game since his laptop also had to be repaired. I don’t think that had anything to do with it not being able to boot up again and think its the motherboard again and not a hard drive crash.

My question is this:

Can I take the hard drive out of the Sager laptop and connect it to my HP Pavillion Laptop?

From what I have read around so far all of the adapters I have seen connect the HDD from the laptop to your desk top through the IDE cable but nothing about connecting it to another laptop. I would think it should be able to be done through the USB port but I’m not sure.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

TIA

Mark…

PS Sometimes I’m on AIM if anyone uses that. My screen name is dotorperiod

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