I have a Vaio Laptop that won't turn on, so I have purchased a HX-IDE-K so that I can hook up my hard drive to my HP Desktop, both are running Windows XP. I want to back up my data. Well I took out ...

I am helping a man who has a Tandy 1000 TL/2 computer that has been in daily use for well over 10 years! The system finally failed, but the man wants to recover the data he has accumulated over the ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.