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Marthe48

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Wed Mar 24, 2021, 01:42 PM Mar 2021

Good afternoon! I'm looking for advice please [View all]

I finally dismantled my broken laptop. It is a Dell Inspiron N5110. The hinge connecting the screen to the body was cracked, and I accidentally tipped it off a footrest and broke the hinge, got the blue screen of death. I took it to a shop before Covid-19 hit, and they sat on it for 3 months and did nothing. I brought it home, but I was overwhelmed with the idea of dismantling the lap top to get the hard drive removed. But after all this time, I did it. I didn't ruin any of the parts, but since it is so out of date, I don't think I'll try to put it back together, although I'm thinking of trying, just for the experience. I think that when I dropped it, it knocked the LCD cable loose, and it might have been an easy fix, had the computer shop bothered to open it and look.

My next step is to buy a hard drive docking station and that is what I'd like advice about. The hard drive is a Western Digital Scorpio Blue (?) HDD S/N 5400 RMP 640 GB WX91E61ARS18

I was looking at an all-in-one dock, and I see that they have a description like this:
2 IDE SATA 2.5" 3.5" HDD Hard Drive Disk Clone Docking Station Card Reader USA

I realize I'm not sure what I should actually order that would be usable with this hard drive. I was using this laptop up until I dropped it, and there pictures and other data I'd love to retrieve. I would be happy to get a device that would read that hard drive. If someone could advise me, I would be so grateful.

Thank you!

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