Carl Houseman typed the following on 5/16/2006 7:55 PM:
Remove the hard drive from the laptop, connect it to any standard desktop
with an adapter cable, and copy/backup/image the drive.
Adapter cable?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=2.5%22+hard+drive+adapter+cable
Just checking: would something like this permit me to remove an HD from a
defunct laptop and connect it to a USB port on my desktop?
The IDE Drive to USB 2.0 Adapter implements a bridge between one USB port and
one ATA or ATAPI based mass storage device port. The USB 2.0 to IDE Drive
Adapter turns any IDE (EIDE) drive into a convenient external drive. Easily
transfer files from computer or notebook, back up files, or store large file
archives on hard drives. The Hi-Speed USB interface provides for easy
installation with its Plug and Play design. The adapter supports all existing
IDE/ATAPI devices such as Iomega Zip, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and IDE hard
drives:
* 2.5" Laptop Drives ( with the included 2.5" to 3.5" Converter)
* 3.5" Desktop Drives (works with all brands, including Maxtor, Seagate,
IBM, Hitachi, Samsung, Western Digital and etc, up to 512GB)
* 5.25" CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-RW
<http://www.xpcgear.com/usbideadapter.html>
Thanks.
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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
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life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government
power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine
all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy
unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the
"wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely
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