access laptop drive on mac pro?

[cpnotebook80]

I have an old laptop drive that wont boot up.It was a windows machine.
I removed the drive and hoped to access it using an external controller
however, since mac pro has spare enclosure, will i be able to use the laptop drive through that. I know its not a 3.5 " drive
I just need to access it once to get some files out

 

[spinnerlys]

Okay?


That laptop drive can have various interfaces, from P-ATA to S-ATA.

Maybe I'm too stupid, but what is it you want?

You have an adapter (the right one?), so it should work, shouldn't it?

Mac OS X can read and write FAT32 formatted volumes, and it can read NTFS formatted volumes, the two common file systems used with Windows.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

If it's a SATA hard drive you can just install it in one of your extra HDD bays. You may need to get creative to hold the 2.5" HDD in the 3.5" slot so it's not all flopping around.

SATA/IDE 2.5" enclosures are cheap now a days. Just check out Newegg.com or ebay to buy one.