access data from bad (laptop) hard drive

[PC Craze]

My laptop hard drive got toasted. I have to at least get some data out of that hard drive. I know that data is still there and it is possible to get it out, but not sure how do I get to it.

In regular PC we can attached the bad hard drive as secondary hard drive and try to get it that way, but I an not familiar with laptop.

I order new hard drive for laptop, which I will use to replace the bad one.

Does anybody have any suggestion on how to get data from bad laptop hard drive?

Thanks

 

[Anon_F]

Could you not put the hard drive it in a USB caddy enclosure and take it off that way?
Data recovery companies charge $$$$$

 

[PC Craze]

I suppose i need to buy this usb caddy thing right?

 

[Anon_F]

I suppose i need to buy this usb caddy thing right?

It would be the cheaper option, if it works.
Any local pc shop should be able to sell you one.

 

[Techy]

the cheapest option is to buy a "laptop HDD to standard parallel adpater" and put it in a desktop. I'm not sure what the propper name is for it but they only cost a couple of quid.

 

[PC Craze]

conclusion

I didn't wnated to conclude this thred in mystry so i am adding what i did.
Went and bought USB enclosure (see pic on attachment).It cost me $40.00. Which is ridiculous. It had just the connector inside a box and USB cable. I tried the working hard drive with that to verify if that expensive gadget work. It work great, but it didn’t work for my old bad hard drive. I think my old hard drive is totally fried. I suppose I can now keep that USB enclosure to use for external hard drive.
Thanks a lot for the comment as it helped me to come to conclusion I am out of luck unless I can spend fortune to take it to the data recovery place.

 

[xx0033]

Sounds to me like perhaps data recovery is the way ahead?


If the drive isnt working, the general reasons are as follows:

1. Failed heads
2. Failed/Corrupt firmware
3. Failed PCB
4. Combination of above

If your hard drive has an internal issue, then its going to cost a few dollars. I assume that Disklabs, http://www.disklabs.com wont be able to help as they are based in the UK, but there are some good US companies too.

Good luck.

Simon