Acer Aspire 3000 - Recover Data from HD

[petayu]

Hi, bit of a long shot.

We are currently looking at buying a new PC and as if taking offense my Acer laptop has died. Its a problem with power, tried a new power supply but that didn't cure it (it may just work if I could charge the battery up).

The thing is, as we are on course to replace it I don't really want to spend a lot to fix it (especially as it was a cheap 'do for now' purchase last year'), on the other hand if we could just get access to the hard drive and transfer off the parts we want I'd then happily chuck it.

Is there a way to be able to access these things, its a Seagate 40GB, model ST94019A Hard Drive.

I could take it to a shop, but without looking at it I have no idea what data I want to pull off.

I am presuming that if I bought a new laptop that I could not just switch hard drives to transfer what I want onto a DVD (presuming drivers for hardware and that's even if the HD's are comaptible).

I suppose I want to know is there any external hardware that can be used to read this or is a shop my best bet. If I use a shop, in what format would I expect my data.

[kn00tcn]

you could probably just plug the drive into a regular desktop with a free ide/sata port (whichever the drive uses) & copy the files there

or external enclosures that you plug with usb into a new laptop/desktop