i currently have a laptop that has a ruined battery and i have no way of turning it on, so i was wondering if connecting it to my other laptop, if i am able to tranfer all the files from my hard drive of my broken laptop to my other one through the use of the data transfer cable?thankyou
You can NOT do that with just a data transfer cable, but the cable will not supply power to the drive. It only transfer information. What you need is a hard drive enclosure. It is a small box that you place the hard drive inside. It then has a USB cable that plugs into your laptop (or desktop). The USB cable supplies the power to the hard drive. Once in the enclosures, the hard drive will function as a external hard drive. You can plug it in, and it will show up as another drive (like an E: or F:) on your computer. You can then copy off anything you want. You also have the option, once you have copied your data, of formatting that hard drive and then continuing to use it as an external hard drive permanently. Enclosure start in the $30 range for a cheap aluminum one (good for one time data transfer, but not recommended for 24x7 eternal hard drive usage as they can overheat) to $75-100 for one with a cooling fan, to several hundred for one with fancy neon lights and other extras. Considering that a decent external hard drive will run you $100 or more, the enclosure is a cheaper way of not only recovering your files, but getting an external drive at the same time. Since it is a laptop drive, you will want a 2.5 inch enclosure, rather than a 3.5 inch designed for the larger desktop hard drives. And if the laptop is more than a year old, you will want an IDE connector (rather than s SATA). Good luck
