Possible to transfer laptop hard drive data without paying for a usb enclosure?

[opticalillusion]

Basically I have a broken laptop with a broken MOBO so it wont get past the loadup screen

is it possible to somehow transfer the data off that laptop to another HDD or SSD?

all I have are various USB cords ..would I have to buy a sub enclosure?

 

[TakeshiKudo]

You can use a sata to usb adapter. Or an external enclosure like you said. Or an HDD docking.

 

[electrontau]

Easiest way is to remove hard drive and put in a enclosure. Then you have an external drive.

 

[USAFRet]

If all you're wanting to do is copy some files (not OS and programs) off that drive, and it is a current SATA drive...just connect it internally in some other desktop.
It will just appear as another drive letter.

 

[JDB Computing]

Two ways - the easiest being to just buy the enclosure. You can pick one up for £10.

The other is to put the laptop drive (usually 2.5, hopefully SATA) in your desktop.

 

[opticalillusion]

ok ty for answers, I do have these SATA cords ( i think they're sata cords) but it says they are ''Designed for SATA3 6 gb/s or something like that..is it safe to plug these sata cords into my desktop PC and the laptop HDD? I heard PC's and laptops use different HDDs like laptops use 2.5 and desktops 3.5 or something like that

could I potentially fry my motherboard?

these is what im talking about

http://i.imgur.com/WDZyGe2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xf9LQ1X.jpg and here are the SATA cords

http://i.imgur.com/Qjd6hjS.jpg

 

[JDB Computing]

ok ty for answers, I do have these SATA cords ( i think they're sata cords) but it says they are ''Designed for SATA3 6 gb/s or something like that..is it safe to plug these sata cords into my laptop HDD? I heard PC's and laptops use different HDDs like laptops use 2.5 and desktops 3.5 or something like that

could I fry my motherboard?

these is what im talking about

http://i.imgur.com/WDZyGe2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xf9LQ1X.jpg and here are the SATA cords

http://i.imgur.com/Qjd6hjS.jpg

2.5 and 3.5 simply refer to the size of the HDD in inches. The connectors and power requirements are basically identical.

 

[opticalillusion]

so it would be safe to plug it in?

and what about the power, do I use a whole separate cord such as this one ( im assuming) http://i.imgur.com/nFqvFJK.jpg

or the cord that I plugged into my SSD (which still has like 3 extensions)

And I have two sata cords, a ''normal'' looking one, and the one where one of its heads is like a hammer, I was told to use the one with the ''hammer''

and does it matter if i plug the SATA cord into SATA 1 SATA 2 or SATA 3 ports , do I have to follow the order?

 

[JDB Computing]

You can use any SATA power cord - even the one your SSD is plugged into. They're all rated for the same power output regardless of whether any devices are 'chained'.

You can also use any SATA data cord - I'm not sure what you mean by a hammer, but there are right angled ones?

SATA order shouldn't matter.