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Old Oct 15, 2007 | 9:23 pm
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Lurker1999
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Need help finding an external drive enclosure

Something happened to my laptop. While I was surfing, Vista produced a BSoD and when I tried to restart the laptop it just hung. I've gotten as far as getting to the Fujitsu start-up menu by pulling the battery and leaving it unpowered for 3 minutes. But for some reason there is a BIOS password and I did not set one. Naturally Vista won't boot or allow me to boot from a CD either. I have a feeling the laptop will need to be sent back to Fujitsu.

Before this happens I need to copy all the information off the hard drive, just in case. From the Fujitsu website I pulled the following specs on the laptop:

LifeBook P7230 Notebook
Hard drive: 80 GB (4200 rpm) P-ATA Ultra DMA 100; shock-mounted, and protected by intelligent shock sensor technology, 2.5"

Here are the specs (I think) for the drive from the Fujitsu website:
Interface: ATA-7

Do I simply need any generic enclosure that supports PATA and 2.5" drives?
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