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From: GT on 15 Jun 2010 05:37
<jw(a)eldorado.com> wrote in message
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> My son is in trouble. He knocked his girl friends's laptop onto the
> floor and smashed the screen.
>
> God almighty!
>
> Anyway, all I have here are desktops, and wonder if I can connect her
> hard drive from the laptop to my desktop as a second drive in order to
> copy off her data, which seems to be astronomically important to her.

Hold that thought - No need to go at it with a screw driver necessarily...
If the laptop has a VGA output connector on the back, you can plug it into
an external monitor and using a key combination, you should be able to see
the picture on the external monitor. The key combination is usually the 'Fn'
button and one of the F keys - my Dell is Fn + F8. The function key in
question will have a little picture of 2 screens or might say VGA on it, or
similar.

Google the model number and see if you can find the key combination.


From: jw on 15 Jun 2010 07:28
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:34:46 -0500, Grinder <grinder(a)no.spam.maam.com>
wrote:

>
>You would need a mechanical adapter as the PATA connector on 2.5" is not
>the same as you see in your typical desktop.


Ohoh. I'll have to look for same

Duke
From: jw on 15 Jun 2010 07:32
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:37:04 +0100, "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote:


>Hold that thought - No need to go at it with a screw driver necessarily...
>If the laptop has a VGA output connector on the back, you can plug it into
>an external monitor and using a key combination, you should be able to see
>the picture on the external monitor. The key combination is usually the 'Fn'
>button and one of the F keys - my Dell is Fn + F8. The function key in
>question will have a little picture of 2 screens or might say VGA on it, or
>similar.
>
>Google the model number and see if you can find the key combination.
>
Thanks. I will try that when my son brings me the broken laptop.

Duke
From: Brian Cryer on 15 Jun 2010 10:09
<jw(a)eldorado.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:34:46 -0500, Grinder <grinder(a)no.spam.maam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>You would need a mechanical adapter as the PATA connector on 2.5" is not
>>the same as you see in your typical desktop.
>
>
> Ohoh. I'll have to look for same

You can get a USB device which will let you plug in your SATA and PATA (2.5"
or 3.5") devices. I think you will find that the device suggested by "Pen"
does just that (as it looks very similar to the device I use).

BTW: If its "just" the screen on the laptop and everything else is okay,
then you should be able to replace the screen - but its not a cheap item.
--
Brian Cryer
http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian

From: GMAN on 15 Jun 2010 13:22
In article <r0dd165afmv467ei3kdrfs12l5gkgbu2vs(a)4ax.com>, jw(a)eldorado.com wrote:
>My son is in trouble. He knocked his girl friends's laptop onto the
>floor and smashed the screen.
>
>God almighty!
>
>Anyway, all I have here are desktops, and wonder if I can connect her
>hard drive from the laptop to my desktop as a second drive in order to
>copy off her data, which seems to be astronomically important to her.
>I see that as a temporary solution to at least preserve her data, but
>I don't know what laptop HD connectors look like. I don't have a
>laptop HD laying around. How hard is it to make that kind of
>connection?
>

If its a sata hard drive in her laptop then its a piece of cake to hook the
drive up as a second drive. The connectors are the same with desktop and
laptop sata drives.




>I guess to preserve this relationship, I could create a desktop she
>can use while my she shops for a replacement laptop. What we do for
>our survivors!
>
>Duke
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