Need help with a hard drive. Anyone?

[85 GT Kid]

Ok first off i'm not the greatest with computers but I can usually do ok so bear with me . This hard drive I have is throwing me off. My girlfriend has an old laptop that she thinks has pictures of her grandfather who passed away not to long ago and would like to get them off the hard drive (laptop is dead) so I figured I could do that with a cable attached to the hard drive. Problem is I can't figure out what cable to use??? The hard drive is an IBM Model: IC25N030ATCS04-0. Anything else I may need to know? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks :good:,

John

 

[johnb35]

Buy a USB adapter such as this one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...USB_hard_drive_adapter-_-12-119-152-_-Product

This will allow you to connect any IDE or sata hard drive to it and connect the USB into any computer to transfer files.

 

[85 GT Kid]

Just making sure this will fit (hard to tell with the pics on that website). This is the pic of my HDD.

 

[Geoff]

That should be an IDE drive, it looks like there is a broken connector on it, perhaps an IDE cable with the ribbon cable ripped off.

 

[johnb35]

Just check to make sure that there isn't an OEM adapter attached to the pins. On most there were. Whats the view from the top and front look like?

 

[85 GT Kid]

Just check to make sure that there isn't an OEM adapter attached to the pins. On most there were. Whats the view from the top and front look like?

Yep that was it! Thanks guys! Now to see if the HDD is shot or not