Accessing Serial ATA hard drives

[JHMorf]

Afternoon all,

I am trying to do a favour for a relative in accessing some hard-drives of defunct laptops for them. They hope I can recover some old Word documents.

There are three hard drives (photos attached) and I believe all are from laptops. Two appear to have the same type of connection, whereas one is slightly different.

I am inexperienced with computer hardware issues, and all I am looking to find out is which (if any) of the cheap "SATA to USB adapter" devices available on Amazon will fit all three of these drives so I can access them via my own laptop and look for documents.

I mean devices such as the following:

UGREEN USB 3.0 to Sata Adapter 2.5 External Hard Drive: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Shop UGREEN USB 3.0 to Sata Adapter 2.5 External Hard Drive Disk Reader Cable UASP Supported Sata III to USB Converter Compatible with Samsung Crucial WD Toshiba etc Internal HDD SSD. Free delivery and returns on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

All 3 drives are just under 3 inches in width and just over 4 inches in length. I was about to purchase an item like the above, but as I tried to research it became unclear to me whether any one type would fit all 3 of these drive types.

There are of course many serial numbers on the drive surfaces; please let me know if quoting any of these will clarify the issue.

Thanks,

JHM

 

[Rustys]

I use one that has a separate power and data connection

Here is another one that may work for you.

Amazon.co.uk