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Re: [LUG] Laptop died!

 

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Rob Beard<rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  battery and just powering up from the power supply?
>   
>> If all else fails I'm sure someone on the LUG will be able to help get
>> your data off the drive (I have a cable to attach a 2.5" IDE hard drive
>> to a standard desktop IDE port which you could borrow if you get really
>> stuck, or if you're lucky and it's an SATA drive you can just use a
>> standard SATA power and data connection from a desktop PC).
>>     
>
> Laptops using SATA tend to use a micro SATA connector that is not the
> same as desktop machines. So just be careful there before making a
> long drive to someones place ;-)
>
> Robin
>   
Really?  My laptop and a couple of others I've worked on have standard 
desktop size SATA connectors.

Rob


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