I have a laptop computer at home. I can't remember the hard drive size, but if it is 250 GB I should be able to use it as the main computer and slave my reformatted hard drive to it. I am bound and determined to look into this hard drive. Can someone give me the instructions on how to slave the hard drive to my laptop, what type of cables I would need and the remaining procedure on how to complete the recovery. What effects will this have on the laptop? When lurkswithin mentions storing the recovered data on a partition of the main computer (being my laptop) does that mean I would just create a folder to store the information? I do have an external hard drive and if the data is less than 20 GB I can store the data onto it.

Once again, thanks for any suggestions you may have.