Recover files from a fried laptop

In this instructable I will show you how to recover files from a hard drive coming from a laptop with a fried motherboard. The hard drive cannot be damaged in any way, only the other parts of the laptop.

This does not require any sort of adapters!

materials:
-one fried laptop
-one working laptop
-Ubuntu live boot disc or Flash drive 
-somewhere to put your recovered files

tools:
-screwdriver

Step 1 Swap the hard drives

This part isn't too hard, most laptops don't hide their hard drives and they are fairly accessible. The case on the hard drive makes it so you can't just easily lip it into another computer.

1. Locate the hard drive in your fried laptop.
2. Remove it.
3. Locate the hard drive in your working laptop.
4. Remove it.
5. Remove the cases from both of the hard drives.
6. Put the case of the good laptop on the fried laptop's hard drive.
7. Put the fried laptop's hard drive in the working laptop.

Comments

[ShanW]

Thank you. I think you just saved me at least $120. Much appreciated.

[Irock148]

in the picture that has the fried dell is the buntu sticker does the computer reallyrun on ubuntu
wow.... that kinda sucks

[spa31rky]

Very helpful and informative. I will have to use this on my PC if it can.

[optox]

It should work on PCs. Just switch the hard drives, which is easier with PCs because the cable to the hard drive just pops out.