Summary

My white Dell laptop cannot switch on anymore, decided to dump it, and retrieved the hard disk, bought a external hard disk and converted it into a portable hard disk, it is working properly.

Original hard disk

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It’s important to remove the connection cap to expose the SATA serial port.

Below shows the picture of the cap to be removed.

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After put inside the portable case.

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Reference

​​绿联taobao​​