Comments on: How to connect 2.5 IDE hard drive to PC

By: Zafar

Zafar — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:52:10 +0000

I have a Dell Latitude D610. It had Window XP. We also added Window 8.1. When we booted it would ask for one of two options and worked for both. But now when we turn on it shows Window XP momentarily and displays “Repair in Progress” and never ends. We kept is over 24 hours. We took out hard disk Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00. We were advised to buy an enclosure [we have bought Sabrent Model EC-AHDD enclosure] and connect the hard drive and check what is wrong and may be able to fix the problem. We do not know how to make Sabrent enclosure connection to hard disk. Do we have incorrect enclosure? We want to recover data from the hard drive, if we cannot make it work. Please help!

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:16:01 +0000

In reply to jalascoo. @ jalascoo, It's not very clear what you did with the laptop hard drive. Did you install OS on the laptop hard drive while it was connected to your PC? If that's what you did, most likely it's not going to work in the laptop. You have to install OS on the laptop. Here's what you can do: 1. First of all, test the laptop hard drive. Connect it as a slave to your PC. After that install HDTune software (free for personal use) and test the laptop hard drive. Select the drive you want to test (laptop drive), click on Error Scan tab and Start the test (do not check Quick Scan). 2. If the hard drive fail test, replace it. 3. If the hard drive pass test, install it into the laptop and reinstall OS.

By: jalascoo

jalascoo — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:00:22 +0000

I have a laptop which failed to boot up. So I hooked up its hard drive on a desktop pc to reimage. Yet I found after I moved back the hard drive to laptop, I is not booting up. I know the drivers like NIC,Video, Audio etc are different. So I removed all the desktop NIC and Video driver before moving back the hard drive to the laptop.

Any idea what else I need to modify so that the laptop can boot up?

Thanks.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:20:41 +0000

In reply to compaq presrio. @ compaq presario,

Laptop is not rebooting.on screen message showing that Press to resume, to setup.but none of key does not work from keypad.disply freeze

I would test the laptop hard drive and memory first. It's possible one of them failing.

By: compaq presrio

compaq presrio — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:14:35 +0000

Laptop is not rebooting.on screen message showing that Press to resume, to setup.but none of key does not work from keypad.disply freeze

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:59:10 +0000

I received one of these IDE laptop to PC adapter, but I cannot tell which way the power leads go (the red and black wires connect both ways). How can I tell which wire goes to which pin? I am afraid if they are switched I will fry the drive. Thanks.

By: Rsa

Rsa — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:39:52 +0000

I like PC games too much especially truck driving games. but my laptop does not support most of the games. is there any changes i can do to the laptop just to play them? if which site will be helpfull?

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:59:13 +0000

In reply to kuks. @ kuks,

what cn i do,i left my laptop behind my car trunk and found it all wet,when i removed the laptop out of the bag,water was just droping down,its like the rain where entering the trunk,nw what first step should i take?

1. Remove the battery. 2. Do not turn it on. 3. Disassemble the laptop to inspect the damage. http://www.laptoprepair101.com/fix-laptop-after-liquid-spill/

By: kuks

kuks — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:21:02 +0000

what cn i do,i left my laptop behind my car trunk
and found it all wet,when i removed the laptop out
of the bag,water was just droping down,its like the
rain where entering the trunk,nw what first step should i take?

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:58:21 +0000

In reply to Noob. Noob,

Is there any way I can remove a hard drive from a laptop and use it as an internal hard drive for my desktop? The laptop in question is the Dell XPS Studio 1640. My screen broke a couple of months ago and I just got a new desktop, I was wondering if it would be possible to remove my laptop hard drive and use it as an extra hard drive on my PC?

Sure you can. I believe Dell XPS Studio 1640 laptop uses a regular 2.5" SATA hard drive. If you have SATA ports available on your desktop, you can plug the 2.5" laptop hard drive directly into those ports. You just have to buy a 2.5" to 3.5" mounting bracket to secure the laptop hard drive inside your PC, that's it.