So my laptop HD has gone to crap, it boots up, displays the safe mode choices and then the windows screen comes up and it then reboots. Tried reloading Windows, says the drive is either not formatted or corrupt. Deleting the info is not really an option so I cant format. When trying to load windows, it knows the drive size but act like the drive is non existant....

Sounds like the drive is "skipping" internally and then reboots.

Anyway I can possibly connect to a desktop (do they make an adapter to use laptop drives in Desktop?) and use as a slave to try and access the info I want? Drive is an IBM Travelstar

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