Slaving a laptop Hard Drive

I have a 9.5mm laptop hard drive (IBM TravelStar) that refuses to boot. I ran the Dell Diagnostics and there appears to be several defective areas on the disk that keeps it from booting the pc. There is some data I need to retrieve. I know Dell makes a 2nd hard drive module and I could slave this drive in another Dell laptop and do it that way. But what I was wondering is there not a cable of some sort that would allow me to hook this drive up to a desktop via the IDE cable? Like IDE on one end for the pc and the laptop's hard drive interface on the other end? Be a nice tool for me to troubleshoot these hard drive problems in laptops.

Absolutely. Try this.

or this: http://www.startech.com/ststore/Item...ductId=ide4044

I have used those type of adapters before and they work well. You might be able to find what you are looking for on eBay or even your local computer store might have one.

I use this is soo much better, all them adapters suck and fry the little lappy drives :(


http://shop.store.yahoo.com/cableson...dr44la40d.html

$3 on eBay

strange. I have never had a problem with the startech ones frying anything. Even if installed backwards by accident.