How do you remove a laptop hard drive?

Question

i have an advent laptop thats recently stopped working, but id like my documents and pictures off it.

after looking around online ive read the best way to retreive my stuff without taking it to be scanned by computer experts (last time we did this they charged us £100 and they still did it wrong) was to remove the hard drive.

how do i do this?

my sister has an identical laptop, so is there any way i could put my laptop hard drive in her laptop then save my work to a disk?

Answer 1

Generic instructions

Look on the bottom or side of the laptop.  You will see several panels. One of these is the hard drive.  You just pull it out, it will have some connectors on the back (similar to a parallel port), but they just pull out. Similarly it will just push in on your sisters computer.