So if you have any dead laptops with salvageable hard drives, this cable is a handy way to turn the drive into a cheap external USB drive.

My laptop's mother board died and I used these cables to recover the data

One of the coolest aspects of this item is that you can connect a laptop hard drive to your PC without any external power supply - the USB port itself will provice enough power to run a laptop drive.

Worked perfectly for a WD ATA hard drive from a Dell desktop, and a small laptop drive as well

Have used this to recover two laptop hard drives already.

I needed to pull info off a laptop hard drive and this thing did the trick with no fuss at all.

but it did what I needed it to do which was get the data off of a laptop hard drive (broken laptop but not broken hard drive) and transfer it to another laptop's hard drive using Windows on that other

I bought this to help a friend out and recover the contents of his laptop hard drive

However, the most difficult time I had was removing the hard drive from my failed laptop.

My computer crashed and I had to purchase a new computer and decided to purchase a powerful laptop

I had a dead laptop and a dead desk top.

Cheapest way to save data from a laptop drive that crashed

Brought it to work to test out some old IDE style laptop hard drives.

Perfect for recovering data from a dead laptop to a new one

I used this on my Windows 7 computer to recover data on an old 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive, as well as a 2.5" SATA hard drive, and it worked perfectly on both and no drivers were needed

All is well, the laptop is still busted, but my friend got back all of their files

My old laptop crashed, and I used this to get some files off the hard drive

That's service!Comes with ATA/ATA cable for laptop hard drives, and a 2.5/3.5/IDE/ATA to USB cable, a dual option power supply for IDE and ATA drives, and AC cord.

This product helped me to recover the files I needed off of a laptop hard drive.

I have 2 laptop hard drives I removed years ago and couldn't wait to access my older files, especially pictures and videos of friends and family

Needed to transfer all my data from old work laptop (corrupted operating system, not bootable) to new work laptop

Doesn't fit my laptop hard drive

I bought the C2G USB 2.0 to IDE or SATA Drive Adapter to copy my files from my dead laptop to my new one

After backing up my data and selling the blank hard drives - as well as the broken laptops for parts - this cord paid for itself

Had a busted laptop with a good hard drive that held an entire iTunes collection

my laptop refused to boot and i knew that my partition was corrupt ... used this and DiskGetor and retrieved all the data to a second hard drive ... recovered all the data by myself ... something that a company was asking $2400, i was able to do in about a 100 ... love this product

It worked perfectly for my laptop hard drive.

It's good to put the drives on a laptop cooling pad because they get HOT.

I used this to test 3 laptop hard drives to find a good one to use in my

read my old laptop hard drive immediately... very handy product, works with both 2.5 and 3.5 sata or ide hard drives.

Main use thus far is with an old laptop hard drive

Got this as a quick means of getting some files off hard drives of failed laptops

I recovered my internal laptop hard drive using this and an installation of UBUNTU

Easy to use and also works with SSDs which came in handy when it came to clone my laptop hard drive.

I can now access my old IDE or SATA laptop hard drives or my interal desktop hard drives I had lying around.!!

I needed to extract some data off a laptop hard drive that wouldn't boot.

This adapter saved me over 40 hours of typing and reformatting several important documents that I thought were lost forever on a dead laptop

I bought this after much debate on how I was going to move data off a failed laptop.

(Plus, I'm sure I'll find ways to use it for my own computer systems as well (4 Win 7 laptops; 1 XP Pro desktop)

These Cables worked perfect for my laptop hard drive

This cable helped me retrieve data off of a hard drive that was in a dead laptop and from an external hard drive that I had accidentally dropped

We didn't get the extended warranty because that place had burned us before and refused to replace a defective laptop.

Or if your laptop itself is physically damaged, and your hard drive is still in tact, these cables come in handy for retrieving important data

how hard drive's could have those plastic pieces in the back that you have to move around (maybe laptop hard drives are different).

The laptop was dead , would not power up.

I ordered this adapter to access an old laptop hard drive from a computer that isn't working.

I bought this product to reformat a 3.5" SATA laptop hard drive

I used this along with another product to recover a hard disc drive off of a defunct laptop computer.

What the virus did was put some form of lock on all my pictures that I was trying to retrieve from my laptop hard drive, then telling me to down load a browser to then go to a website where I can buy an in lock code to retrieve my files

I have since used it on a friend's computer who needed to retrieve data from a dead laptop.

After my laptop was destroyed by water damage during an apartment

Fortunately, I ordered these cables and was able to retrieve all of my data off of the laptop hard drive and was able to transfer it to my external hard drive

Used this to rescue data from a friend's dead laptop.

I recently had my laptop's CPU fail and was able to get all my data off the hard drive using this little adapter

I used it to hook my laptop hard drive to my desktop and recover files.

works as

Worked as I expected it to, very flexible for getting data off old drives, etc

As tempting as it was to read the instructions, I forged ahead and plugged and played with no problems

The power supply had died as

It works exactly as it needs to, at least for SATA which is how I am using it

Works exactly as i expected.

I have a Western Digital ATA harddrive that I needed to verify was still working as it was in an enclosure and no longer worked

Works as it's supposed to

Worked exactly as I needed it to.