I have a coworker who's daughter's Compaq Presario M2000 just up and died. They took it to Breast Buy and they wanted some obnoxious amount of $$ to get the info off the HDD. I checked it over and it looks like it is either the wire or the DC power plug in the lappy. I am gonna try a different cord tonight at work, but the DC deal is like $150ish.

Is there anyway to plug the HD into a desktop to pull the info off? Maybe an adapter of such to plug it into the IDE?

Any other ideas are most certainly welcome.

Hey bull your right on - quite a few adopters available-many at about $10. Amazon is another if preferred, check link below ... looks promising:
http://www.datapro.net/products/laptop-ide...ve-adaptor.html

Most Lappy HDs are EIde or SATA.

so yea.

Here's one with free shipping:
linky

Description:

Plug and Play High-Speed USB 2.0 to 3.5" IDE HDD/Optical Drive Adapter Cable, IDE To USB Convertor,Support ATA/ATAPI Interface Device,Retail Box,Free Ground Shipping

Sweet guys!! Thanks, that should get 'er done.

You guys got me searching. I ordered this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16812119152

It works with SATA and IDE, so you never know... Plus a free card reader. woot???