Mounting a laptop HD in a... thingy

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Pyotr

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My old laptop's hard drive broke. So now I've gotten one of them things that allows me to mount it and connect it to my stationary. Now, I've never even opened a laptop before. So short question: Guide me? x_x
 
If the laptop's harddrive is bad, then what's the point of putting it in a desktop? As for getting into a laptop, they are all different. Some have HD trays for easy access, others you litterly have to rip the whole thing apart.
 
How will I know what's what? Anything in general (if anything of course) I need to consider? Does it break easily?
 
Pyotr said:
Data recovery.
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Yes, I know...but when you say the drive is "bad" I see it as meaning unusable...

Look around on IBM's website. I found a pretty nice disassembly for an older Thinkpad I was working on a few weeks ago. I think it too was a 1400, but it was from the late 90s :P I assume that's not what we're talking about?

(BTW, seeing as all IBMs are practically identical, the drive was right under the keyboard :P)
 
The_Other_One said:
Yes, I know...but when you say the drive is "bad" I see it as meaning unusable...
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Not quite actually. It kinda loads Windows, but after that it just keeps working and working and nothing happens. :/
Look around on IBM's website. I found a pretty nice disassembly for an older Thinkpad I was working on a few weeks ago. I think it too was a 1400, but it was from the late 90s :P I assume that's not what we're talking about?
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Your assumption is incorrect. :p Or well, might be from very early 21st century.
(BTW, seeing as all IBMs are practically identical, the drive was right under the keyboard :P)
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Needed that, thanks. :D
 
look around the bottom and sides of the laptop, there will generally be a sign of three discs stacked on top of each other to symbolize a HD access panel. Sometimes they are on the front and sides of the laptop as well. If this is not the case you must take the keyboard off first and go from there. On the bottom there should be some screws with either a keyboard symbol or the letter K marking them as keyboard screws.

Overall, its not really that hard to take one apart it is just tedious, putting it back together with out any extra screws is going to be the real challenge.
 
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