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Tech question for those of you who are far more knowledgeable than me.

My "school" laptop, now 16 years old, took a dirt nap a couple of weeks ago and will not boot. Has the static symptoms and I tried all the online help to get it to boot up. I've decommissioned it as I had just used it as an extra security monitor (it has explorer!) And for my checking account tracking that I built an excel spreadsheet for.

Anyhow, if I buy one of these and take out my hardrive and install it in one of these will be able to access my files, pictures, etc. ?



Any input is appreciated!

Along those lines, should we have a tech corner sub forum?

Yes, should work as long as the drive still works.

Racer-X wrote: ↑

January 7th 2023, 4:40pm

Yes, should work as long as the drive still works.

Thanks Racer

If it is SATA already. Could be IDE. But fear not, there are adapters for that as well. In particular there are additional powersupply cables required.

I did the same with the HD from a dead laptop though I purchased a small lightweight (minimalist) enclosure to run it.
USB powered and perfect to travel with.

Already had a HD backup of that laptop so nothing was lost if that drive was toast.

Slight Cecil-----
Christmas gift to self was a 16" MacBook Pro w/ M1 chip. It along with previously mentioned external drive will be new travel companions going forward.
Better travel option would be an external SSD but since I already had the HD, I went that route.