In reply to mike123:
> (In reply to mike123) the hard drive is in a metal case, it will need to come out of this to go in the caddy that i got, is this normal ? it looks like 8 small torx screws to remove it
Yes, the metal case its in is its caddy and unique to the laptop itself, not the hard drive. Its just a way of mounting the drive <which all have the same shape> inside the laptop <which every one is different> dunno about 8 screws though, they normally have 4 cross headed screws holding them in the caddy, 2 each side on the long sides of the drive. Don't be taking the actual hard drive apart by mistake! As said above, one its fitted to your UBS adaptor, plug it into a computer and it should auto reconise it as an external drive and assaign it a drive letter. Using windows explorer you can then access the files on it, you'll see the windows, program files and users folders on it and clicking through the users folders you should work out where the 'my documents' folder is. I take it you are after photos and docs etc? They should be in the my documents folder once you find it. Obviously copy these to the good computer. Once all swapped over you can then format the drive and use it as plug and play addition storage/backs ups