actually even being a laptop drive... if you have a friend with a computer... the sata ports between regular drives and laptops are the same and the ata133/100 ports are the same as well... so it wont bolt into the spot but you can plug it into a tower and set it gently on the tray for the hard drives and it will run like another drive... ive done it to speed backup onto my gaming tower for a format on my gfs laptop...
just a thought if the drive isnt totallly shot, itll get your files
the drive has to match the plug tho... an older tower with old ata drives wont work a sata drive for a new laptop... without a converter
