
A friend of mine is here with her laptop (Compaq/Vista) that refuses to boot. I'm attempting to help her the best I can.
I have removed the HD from her laptop and connected it to my PC (Custom built/XP) via SATA cable. The HD has two sections for connectors -- the SATA only connects to the larger of the two sections. Upon connecting the HD to the SATA cable, I can feel and hear the HD begin to run. I then navigate to 'My Computer', but the laptop HD does not appear under 'Hard Disk Drives', as I figured it would/should.
I am lost as to where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You in advance.