I bought an adapter on amazon that will let you connect either type of hard drive to it. It comes with a power adapter and a cord with a usb connection. I plugged the hard drive into the adapter then connected the adapter to my laptop via usb. I paid for a license of EaseUS recovery software and it extracted everything from the hard drive onto a 2tb external drive that I purchased.Cool. Just curious, how do you attach the old drive to the laptop?