Why not get the usual under 20 buck USB laptop HDD case?
Too many are on Amazon, Newegg to list here. This you can copy the files from the old laptop HDD to where you want.
-> In parting, did you forget backups? I'm coming across far too many folk that forget backing up is no longer optional.
I had a small laptop that had a hhd 2.5. Now I have a desktop and I would like to pass the things on the 2.5 hhd to my desktop. Is there any "tool" that I can buy that connects a hdd to a desktop using USB, for example, or is there a better way?
My laptop doesnt work so I cant transfer the data in the hdd to an external storage

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