Lenovo T61P Hard Drive Help!

Hey Guys,

Recently my T61p died as a result of a GPU failure and now it's unable to start up. Since I narrowed down the beep signals to a GPU malfunction it gave me the following idea: I want to remove my hard drive from the T61p (easy enough, it details how to online at the official site) and then the hard part is attaching this hard drive to another computer of mine that isn't a windows laptop.

Basically my main question is does anyone know of a way that I can connect this fully functioning hard drive(from a dead laptop) to a fully functioning computer without physically replacing the drives? What are my easiest options? I'm really only trying to recover a 5 year old collection of about 130000 Mp3's

Help is appreciated

 

Assuming the drive is fine and has no encryption, probably the most easiest way is to use a 2.5" SATA hard drive caddy enclosure and then connect it up to a working PC to retrieve all your files.

 

You have no other copy of the data other than the drive in the T61p? Scary.

Like was already mentioned, you can buy a $20 2.5" hard drive enclosure at Fry's or other computer stores and install the drive into the enclosure. The rubber rails and wrapper around the laptop drive is easily removed and replaced later. Once the drive is in the enclosure, you should be able to plug it into any Windows 7, OSX or Linux machine to retrieve the MP3 files.

You aren't going to have the T61p fixed by Lenovo? They might do it free considering all of the NVIDIA GPU issues reported over the years.

Whatever you do, don't send your drive to Lenovo. Especially without a backup.