how make laptop hd slave in regular box?

[!Allen Lasting]

Hi,

This is a hd from a HP laptop. It has personal data on it that hasn't been
backed up.
I'm going to try to backup the data and then return the hd to HP. The HD in
question
is faulty, but it still spins, so I may have a shot at it. A friend swapped
the replacement
from HP with this one, and asked me to see if I could get his stuff off it,
etc.

The drive is an IBM travelstar 4200 RPM 40 gig ATA/IDE
model: Ic25n040ATCS04-0 July 'o2

I never fooled with laptop stuff before so I'm kinda stuck here. I was
hoping I could
access it with a normal 40pin ide cable, and then use jumper wires to hook
up
whatever run voltage it needed. No luck.

Can anybody tell me how to proceed from here?

Thanks for any ideas.

Allen

 

[Conor]

Hi,

This is a hd from a HP laptop. It has personal data on it that hasn't been
backed up.
I'm going to try to backup the data and then return the hd to HP. The HD in
question
is faulty, but it still spins, so I may have a shot at it. A friend swapped
the replacement
from HP with this one, and asked me to see if I could get his stuff off it,
etc.

The drive is an IBM travelstar 4200 RPM 40 gig ATA/IDE
model: Ic25n040ATCS04-0 July 'o2

I never fooled with laptop stuff before so I'm kinda stuck here. I was
hoping I could
access it with a normal 40pin ide cable, and then use jumper wires to hook
up
whatever run voltage it needed. No luck.

Can anybody tell me how to proceed from here?

You need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter cable.

 

[!Allen Lasting]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for quick reply. I ordered one from here:
/www.techsunny.com
$6.95 including shipping.

Al

 

[John McGaw]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for quick reply. I ordered one from here:
/www.techsunny.com
$6.95 including shipping.

Al

You might want to check the mfr's website for how to make your notebook
drive into a slave. Every one I've seen just automatically assumes that it
is going to be master in a one-HD system. All of mine seem to have an extra
pair of jumper pins but none of the drives is actually labeled as to how to
make it a slave or CS. Hitachi (IBM) drives have four possible ways of
setting the jumper(s) but they also give semi-dire warnings about not using
two of the possible permutations.

 

[Dave]

An external, 2.5" USB enclosure works well and is very handy for just what
you are trying to do.