A friend of mine is experiencing problems with her laptop. The AC adaptor is dead. So is the battery. And of course she has important data on the hard-drive. She tried PC World for a new adaptor, but they wanted €120 for one. A steep, I’m sure you’ll agree. A quick search on Google, and I located a used one on eBay for about €55. The only thing is that she needs the data ASAP, and can’t wait until the adaptor is shipped.
Being the friendly geek that I am, I offered to remove the hard-drive and connect it to one of my PC’s and get the data off it. No problem. I thought. It was only afterwards that I remembered that laptops use a 2.5 inch drive – with a different connector than a standard 3.5 inch IDE drive. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, so you’ll have to excuse my faux pas. I knew that I needed an adaptor, but where to get one in Limerick?