Using an old hard drive - cables etc.

PMBC

How do I connect a recently removed SATA 320Gb hard drive to my laptop t use for back-up of photos and large documents like drawings (Type TT5SAB320, 320 gb, SATA 3Gb/s)? What cables do I need?

There are two L shaped mutli-pin connectors of which one is the data connection and the other is a power connection - I think?
I'm connecting to a Fujitsu Lifebook with ?i5 and new 256 gb SSD. The default position is to return to the shop that fitted the new drive; but then I wont learn anything!
What setting up, if any, do I need to do when hopefuly I have connected? Do i connect the external into a USB port? The laptop also has a HDMI port.
Thanks for any help.
This is my mini Summer project and being >60 I'm almost completely ignorant of the technology. Apart from learning something I want to reuse rather than buy an external hard drive. Im too old to keep consuming.

Twenty Grand

You need a hard drive enclosure
http://www.adverts.ie/14944247

The only thing you need to worry about is whether your hard drive is a 2.5" laptop hard drive or a 3.5" PC hard drive.
Buy your enclosure accordingly.

degsie

Twenty Grand wrote: »

You need a hard drive enclosure
http://www.adverts.ie/14944247

The only thing you need to worry about is whether your hard drive is a 2.5" laptop hard drive or a 3.5" PC hard drive.
Buy your enclosure accordingly.

Don't ever remember a laptop having a 3.5" drive!

Apart from an enclosure, a usb-to-sata adapter would also work.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Professional-USB-2-0-to-7-6-13Pin-Slimline-SATA-Cable-with-LED-Indicator-for-Notebook/32817793343.html

Twenty Grand

degsie wrote: »

Don't ever remember a laptop having a 3.5" drive!

Apart from an enclosure, a usb-to-sata adapter would also work.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Professional-USB-2-0-to-7-6-13Pin-Slimline-SATA-Cable-with-LED-Indicator-for-Notebook/32817793343.html

Never explicitly said the hard drive was from a laptop, though I could be wrong.

PMBC

Thank you both. Its that cable I need.

degsie

Twenty Grand wrote: »

Never explicitly said the hard drive was from a laptop, though I could be wrong.

Yeah, you're right, apologies