I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to back up my data. Well I took out ...

I'm replacing an old 60GB IDE laptop hard drive with a much faster 150GB drive. I don't have a secondary IDE bay. I do have access to an external USB drive. Is there a program that will let me quickly ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.