Comments on: How to connect a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer

By: Sameer

Sameer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:14:40 +0000

2.5 HDD sata connectors are Compatable with the Desktop Sata Connector ,Just Plug the desktop pc’s unused Sata Power and Data cable in to the 2.5 Sata Hdd it will work normal as Desktop Sata Hdd. no extra adapter or modifications are required in the desktop pc’s Mother Board or in the Power Supply.

By: if you hook

if you hook — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:10:49 +0000

hook the laptod drive in as a secondary, if you are running xp it should pick up the drive and try to scan it at startup. The drive is probably corrupt and the damage is where the drive keeps track of the files. Windows will repair the drive if it can and immediatly afterward you should remove anything you want to keep to the computers hard drive. You cannot boot a desktop from a laptops drive, they are too disimilar. Hopes this helps you, helped me about a year ago on a drive i had given up on.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:04:25 +0000

Jose,

I have a laptop computer that I purchased, the laptop was given to my son he used for a few months and created a password to sing in, now I have the laptop back, but he does not remenber the password, is there a free program that I can used to recover the password he had.

Are you asking about Windows password? Is it Windows XP?
Start the laptop and wait until it boots to the login screen. Now press CTRL+ALT+DEL two times (if you have user icons instead of two fields).
For user name type: administrator
Leave the password filed blank.
This might work. On some laptops the admin account might be not protected.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:00:08 +0000

Hi everyone,I have a laptop computer that I purchased, the laptop was given to my son he used for a few months and created a password to sing in, now I have the laptop back, but he does not remenber the password, is there a free program that I can used to recover the password he had.

Thanks,

Jose

By: Postmaster

Postmaster — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:37:21 +0000

since when did SATA drives become an irregular hard drive? As long as the drive has an OS you can boot to it. I would just boot via the normal primary and access the other drive as a slave or secondary primary drive. Then you can view the contents.

By: Postmaster

Postmaster — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:45:50 +0000

So… I have a HDD out of my Lenovo T60. The drive seems to have failed, but I am not posative that is what the deal is. I have tried to hook into a desktop via mainboard SATA connectors and everything seems fine. Drivers are installed, device is working properly, and XP gives it a new drive letter and recognizes it as an alternate drive in my computer. When I try to open the drive XP tells me it isnt formatted…..it was the primary in my laptop, so it is formatted and has an OS on it… any ideas???

I really need the files on this drive. Will a USB adapter do the trick, or is this drive toast and I am SOL?

thanks guys.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:53:07 +0000

No. The notebook drive is IDE and the desktop drive is SATA. I can boot to the XP CD and go through the installation, but that is not what I want to do with this drive. I just want to boot into XP from the desktop’s SATA drive and see what’s on the notebook drive.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:36:16 +0000

Steve,

I tried to configure the system to boot to my SATA drive so I could look at the contents of the notebook HDD. It just gets stuck in a loop with the F8 screen asking how I want to boot, I chose, it restarts and goes back to the F8 screen. Any suggestions?

I assume your notebook hard drive is the SATA drive you are trying to boot from? That’s wrong.
You have to boot from a regular hard drive and if there is nothing wrong with your notebook drive it will appear in My Computer.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:23:47 +0000

I tried to configure the system to boot to my SATA drive so I could look at the contents of the notebook HDD. It just gets stuck in a loop with the F8 screen asking how I want to boot, I chose, it restarts and goes back to the F8 screen. Any suggestions?

By: jae

jae — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:29:05 +0000

i’m trying to take files from my old laptop hard drives and download them on my new laptop what cord do i need. Please help