Hard drive makes laptop power down during boot

[qqpqqpp]

Hi all, I have an emachines e250 laptop, and recently whenever I've tried to turn it on, it boots for around 5 seconds then clicks off. I have identified the problem as being in the hard-drive, as I put another hard drive in the laptop and it worked fine and so have started using that.

I'm wondering what there is I can do to recover the contents of the old hard-drive, as it forces every laptop I plug it into to click off just the same.

I have considered buying an adaptor in order to try and use the hard-drive as a USB, but wondered if there was anything else I could do?

Many thanks and have a great evening!

 

[utroz]

If you only have that one laptop then you will have to use the USB to Sata adapter to try and get the data. With messed up dying hard drives sometimes I have better luck gaining access with a USB adaptor than a direct connection. If you have a desktop you could try putting the bad drive in as a secondary drive and copy the files to it's main hard drive then use the LAN-WIFI to copy them back on your laptop (or put the new laptop drive in the desktop as a secondary and copy files on it that way)