Simple Hard Drive Recovery

I have an old Dell Latitude D600 laptop and I realized that there were some digital photos still on its hard drive that I would like to keep.

Now the laptop is in pretty bad shape and won’t even start up anymore but I’m pretty sure the hard drive still works.

You may find yourself in the same situation where you want to recover information off a hard drive as well. Most of us will eventually experience this problem.

The simplest solution I have found is to get a 3 in 1 adapter drive. The one I have is manufactured by iConnect. There may be other manufactures but I'm not familiar with any of them. I bought my adapter at my local computer store.

You can attach both laptop and PC hard drives to this device. And you can also connect a SATA drive which is used by both laptops and PCs.

In the case of my hard drive from my old Dell D600 I used the 2.5” IDE connection to recover my photos.

Once you attach your hard drive to the adapter, you will plug it into its power supply and then connect it to your PC or laptop with the adapter’s USB cable.

I recommend that you connect the drive to a PC or laptop that is running Windows XP or Vista.

If the old hard drive is working then the laptop or PC you connect it to will recognize the drive once you connect the  USB cable to your computer and you can begin exploring the drive for the data you would like to copy.

To recover the data you simple drag and drop the files and folder from old hard drive to your computer.