How to attach a Laptop HD to my desktop?

[Apex]

Does anyone know of a way to hook up a laptop HD to a desktop IDE cable. Is there a product out there that does this? I want to take the HD out of the laptop and make it a slave to the HD on the desktop so I can make a image of the laptop HD.

thanks

Apex

[darkclaw]

There is an adapter to do that, but the only place I've seen them is on ebay do a search for laptop to ide or something of the sorts. I know they work for the longest I was using a 4 gig laptop drive out of a dead laptop in my tower. Last time I bought on they ran me about 15 dollars. Unfourtunately I don't have any anymore. Went with the hd's when I got rid of them

[brandon184]

Why not just put the laptop on a network between the two PC's, and make all of C drive fully shared?

[Erap!]

If you want to make an image, there are 3 easy ways without spending for a network card and cables. First, borrow a serial cable and start transferring. Secound, borrow an LPT cable that has the right pins crossed and do the same. In both cases you can use a fastwire program which is freeware (i think?!). It's kind of slow though. The third is to burn them onto a CD if you have a parallel CDR. Or just borrow a usb large storage device and transfer!

[Target]

Apex/Darkclaw, CDW has these adapters as part of their regular stock.

The description is: 2.5" Hard Disk Drive Installation Kit.

The part number is: 01-4068-C

And here is the URL for their web page http://www.CDW.com/

Last time I bought one from them, it was somewhere between $12-15

They are a good unit, and work very well. Comes with mounting bracket, and adapter to make it work in a desktop PC.

[Apex]

Target,

I tried to goto the web site, but I can't find it. It tried searching the web site with that part number and I cant find it, can u point me to a more specific link?

Thanks

Apex

[drizzle]

Here's another one for $3.95 from Computer Geeks. I've used them a few times. They work well.

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-1991

[Target]

Geez, I'd go for the one Drizzle mentions....same basic thing for a quarter of the cost that CDW has.

[JimneyJ]

Cheers Drizzle that will save me hours with our sales forces laptops!