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Laptop overheated?

The saga continues......
I want to boot the OS installed on the old laptop Hard drive.

I put the laptop HDD in the caddy and tried to boot it - no go.I don`t think you can boot from USB.

So,i bought one of these from ebay;

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.....and stuck it on the laptop HDD and installed it into a desktop with the other HDD disconnected and switched it on hoping that the PC would boot up from the laptop HDD.
It didn`t.
Why doesn`t the laptop HDD boot in the desktop PC?
Is it anything to do with the four pins on the r/h end of the HDD (see pic a few posts up) not being connected to anything on the connector of the 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter?

Spec:
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A must have kit to transfer data from a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Allow a 2.5" notebook IDE hard drive to fit and run in a 3.5" bay on a desktop or tower system[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Ideal solution for laptop drive backups or direct data transfers[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Compatible with all laptop IDE hard drives such as used in COMPAQ, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, Sony & others Convert 2.5" laptop hard drive to regular IDE hard drive [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Notebook 44-pin female[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]IDE hard drive 40-pin male connector[/FONT][/FONT]

Yours,
Confused.com


Just a quick question............. Did you connect the white connector to the power supply? Without this the drive won't spin up.

And No, you are correct. Windows cannot be booted (normally) from the USB bus. There are ways but extremely difficult!

As SP!KE said, "Just attach it as a slave and copy the data off. If you need to take ownership do it so at folder level, wont take long to do. "
 
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