Accessing a removed Pro drive

[William.Mantle]

Hello again

A quick question for anyone with some time and thoughts to spare.

I had a 2010 Pro which was damaged after spilling a glass of wine over it.

It is now with an insurance company that replaced it but they have offered a flat fee of £35 to have the hard drive removed and sent to me.

This hard drive has all my old pictures, music and files on and I would love to be able to get them back.

However, it is only worth it if I can actually access the hard drive.

How simple would it be for me to connect this hard drive to my new air? Would I need to power it and how would I link it?

I appreciate anyones time and help with this.

Thank you in advanced

William

 

[Saberon]

Buy a 2.5" external enclosure and it will plug in via USB.

 

[yusukeaoki]

Buy a HDD enclosure with USB 2.0 and put the HDD inside the case.
Connect it via USB and you should be able to extract all files.

I recommend this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392032

I use this and its very cheap and works great.

 

[William.Mantle]

Guys... Thank you so much for this

Once again Macrumors amazing members have come out on top again.

Thank you to everyone again.

William

 

[yusukeaoki]

Guys... Thank you so much for this

Once again Macrumors amazing members have come out on top again.

Thank you to everyone again.

William

No problem mate!
Glad we could help