Doh!

[bjarvis]

I finally managed to take apart my Sony Vaio laptop and extract the hard drive.

Problem: The laptop hard drive is serial ATA, but the external disk enclosure I have is IDE. Damn!

I can't think of any other machine to which I have immediate access that supports serial ATA, except perhaps kent4str's iMac which I doubt he'd let me dismantle even if our lives depended on it.

The replacement power supply for my Vaio should be arriving in about one week. I think I'll just reassemble the laptop and try to be patient until I can power it up again on its own terms. *sigh*

Comments

[g8rcub.livejournal.com]

CompUSA (and most other reasonable computer stores) carry a SATA to USB converter to allow you to attach a drive to another computer to recover data. It is about 30 to 50 bucks, and should allow all 3 different types of hard drives to be converted to USB.

[jss]

Borrow another (already-charged) battery and use it to power up the laptop and transfer the data off?