help recovering info off of WD1600BEVT

krtussey

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Mar 11, 2014
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My acer aspireone laptop got fried, took out WD 160GB Harddrive, need a way to recover files from it using ANOTHER acer, aspireone notebook that I currently have and need to know what else I need?
 
Well, you can't connect a naked hard drive to another laptop. You either need to borrow a desktop to plug it into or get something that will connect the SATA interface on the drive to the USB port on your other PC.

There are many elegant solutions with an empty enclosure that will make your disk into an external drive. Or you can go for the simple temporary solution, something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

Then you have to find out if the disk is in good shape or you need disk recovery software...