Data transfer from an old laptop ata harddrive

abls12

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Apr 24, 2016
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I have a very old Dell inspiron 2650 running windows xp which crashed and I need to recover the files but the harddrive uses a very old laptop ata connection!!! I have not been successfull in finding a type of cable that allows me to plug into a use and try to retrieve,
Tried adding an external drive to load Ubuntu but the bios does not read from an external drive Is there any cable software that would let me read the files in the harddrive (must be on a cd and usable for windows xp?