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Some explanation is probably needed as a preface... I had a Samsung HD103SI drive failing with 3 Pending Bad Sectors the other day. Since the drive is fairly new I decided to remove it from the pool (I've got 4 identical 1TB drives). So far no problems. I physically removed it from the system...

According to the Active@ Partition Recovery website it starts at $35.95.

Are you looking for something that's a long term solution or do you just need one-time access? It's not clear to me... do you want to access the sata drive from the laptop or the laptop ide drive from a sata port on a different computer? If it's short term use you might use something like this.

I bought my 3ware SFF8087OCF 1M cables on eBay for under $15 each w/free shipping. The product actually came from ewiz.com so the eBay seller is probably just the ewiz storefront. Shorter cables are also available if you don't want the 1 meter version.

5in3 vertical mount is pretty common for 3x.5.25" in a hot-swap configuration but agree that doing it horizontally won't fit. The trick is to just find a cage only if one doesn't need the hot-swap capability or added fans, connectors, etc. In my case I'm thinking of scavenging parts from an...