You can spend the money on getting a firewire or usb kit that will allow you to connect to the notebook by firewire or USB. Hope your notebook has USB or firewire connections. I suggest getting a USB 2.0 type so that it can be used on more computers as almost every compute comes with usb now a days but not all of them have firewire.
GK
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