Transfer hard drive data???

Question

my toshiba m40 satellite laptop is dead and i want to buy an external drive and put my laptops drive in the external drive instead so i have access to my files, but i dont know what size external i need.... a 2.5 maybe... and does my idea work? what size is my laptop drive?

Answer 1

2.5" drive enclosure will work fine.  

Answer 2

Yes 2.5 is right and yes you can take your laptop hard drive put it inside a usb case and make it an external drive on another computer.

I hope your laptop hard drive is not whats dead, then it wouldnt work LOL.  

Your hard drive connection is most likely SATA 3.

Answer 3

Yes.. you need a 2.5 PATA drive shuttle.  

Toshiba Satellite M40 Specifications (as reviewed):

Intel Pentium-M 760 (2.0Ghz, 533Mhz FSB)

1GB RAM (2x 512MB DDR400)

60GB (PATA 100 5400Rpm, 8mb Cache)

15.4" Widescreen TruBrite' Glossy display (1280x800 native)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 128mb PCI-Express

Intel Pro 2195 a/b/g Wireless

Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-8315 (DVD-RAM, +R / + - RW)

Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2)

Toshiba 6.1 Hour Li-Ion Battery (6 cell; 4300mAh)

I use this to transfer hard drive data:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

It can connect a SATA (2.5 or 3.5) or PATA (2.5 or 3.5) hard drive to the USB 2.0 bus.  I use Acronis software to clone or backup the drive.

Here's a cheap external enclosure that you can put your PATA 2.5 drive in from your Toshiba laptop.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...