So, now I have somewhat deteriorating situation (depending).....I just have very simple question about these internal laptop hard drives that are working from standard SATA......this one has the standard SATA but also has the little tiny serial strip that attaches to the motherboard of the laptop. So my question is, if I take this little HDD out and set it up on my desktop to extract data from, will that be ok? realizing that the little serial strip will simply be connected to nothing when i interface it with my desktop computer.