How to extract information from the hard drive of a broken laptop?

Question

Hard disks

Hello!
I have an old Packard Bell laptop. It seems to have broken down there like a motherboard, that is, a total breakdown, and there is no way to start it.
But also there was important information on the hard drive.
I would like to unscrew the HDD from there, and somehow hook it up to my current laptop, like an external HDD, to transfer information from there.
Can you tell me if this can be done at home?
Thanks

Answer 1

I would like to unscrew the HDD from there, and somehow hook it up to my current laptop, like an external HDD, to transfer information from there. Can you tell me if this can be done at home?

It is possible, and very easy. You just need to purchase a USB box for a standard 2.5" disk size, charge a disk pulled out of a dead laptop into it, and connect its tail to any computer that has the appropriate plug. The resulting product is useful not only for a one-time case of saving information, but also in general, as a portable storage, "a very large flash drive", you only need (after saving the information, of course) to clear the disk.
The issue price is 500 ... 700 rubles here or 300 rubles from the Chinese on Ali (but wait a month until it arrives). with USB-2.0 does not make sense, better - with USB-3.0

Answer 2

Laptops have standard 2.5 "hard drives, most often (that is, for a long time) only SATA, that is, they can be connected to any computer with standard cables. You can not "pull out the information", but simply connect the disk and use it, it will be additional.

Answer 3

Unscrewing - perhaps picking up - depends on the interface, if there is SATA, then you can find the adapter without problems, but if there is some old IDE or something like that, then you can’t, but you can look for IDE to USB adapters for example.

Answer 4

Twisting and inserting