If the motherboard or other major component fails on your laptop, the data you have stored on your hard drive will suddenly become unreadable. Fortunately, you can slave your laptop’s hard drive by connecting it to the USB drive on your desktop computer, or even on another laptop. All you need to slave your laptop hard drive is a simple hard drive enclosure and a working computer. Slaving the laptop drive allows you to recover your files and copy them to the primary hard drive on your desktop computer, or to a back-up device or external hard drive. Writer Bio

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