How to read files from laptop hard drive?

[sethmachine]

Hi,

So I've got a hard drive that's working from my laptop.

How do I read the files off it into another computer (e.g. my macbook).

I read I need a hard drive enclosure thing. But the one I get depends on the teeth of my hard drive. So how do I know which hard drive enclosure to buy? What information on my hard drive tells me this?

Here's the pictures of the hard drive.

 

[Chaosy]

My dad did exactly that a year ago.. he transfered the files from a crashed hard drive.. however I don't know how he did it. I'll make sure to ask him tomarrow if you still have the problem. (it's 4 in the morning so I can't ask him right now xD)

edit: even though you how to do it, he can read that shit if needed.

 

[Velmarshal]

Just hook it up to your PC and browse it like a normal harddrive.

 

[sethmachine]

I don't have a PC. I have a MacBook pro. Need a usb to connect to it. But which?

 

[Velmarshal]

You need a SATA connector as well as a SATA Power connector. You can't do anything with that drive and the macbook, most probably.

To connect it via USB you need a conversion kit, because the USB port would have to connect to both the power SATA and data SATA ports on the harddrive.
Like this: http://www.ricksdailytips.com/turn-internal-hard-drive-into-an-external-drive/

 

[Dr Super Good]

You also need appropriate drivers to resolve the partition logic. MAC OS cannot out of the box resolve the most common Windows Partition formats (it does FAT but that scales badly and was last used outside portable applications by DOS). Like wise Windows cannot out of the box resolve MAC or Linux formatted partitions. Obviously they can with appropriate drivers but these may require payment or considerable computer know-how to install and use.

 

[sethmachine]

Well what I ended up doing was simply purchasing a USB to SATA wire (2.5 inches or something). Worked perfectly for both OS X and Windows 7--both OS could read from the harddrives that were used in Windows 7 and OS X actually bypasses file permission features from Windows.