steve - 10:41 am on Jul 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

But since it's a laptop drive, I don't know what the interface is and what it's compatible with..

Electrically they have standard IDE interfaces, the connector is just smaller.

You can buy cables which have a small IDE connector at one end and full size one at the other. Plug it into a desktop PC and away you go.

Or, as I mentioned in an earlier post use a USB caddy, Win2k and XP will recognise it as a removable external drive, so you don't need to load any drivers.