Connecting PC IDE drive to Laptop

[Neopopulas]

I am looking for a - fairly easy - way to connect a normal (internal) PC IDE drive to a laptop. Often times i'm around doing diagnostics on PC harddrives and it becomes a real pain to swap them out into PCs over and over again. I was wondering what is the best - or only - way to connect a PC IDE internal drive to a laptop, if there even is one

 

[swwelsh]

Well, you can get an external usb 2.0 case for the IDE drive, but it sounds like you want to connect them without removing the IDE from the pc. No way I know to do that. I just use a bootable CD with lots of drive diagnostic tools on it (BartPE, UBCD, etc.) when I want to look at a customer's drive.

 

[Neopopulas]

Removing the HD is no problem. In fact, most often the HDD are already out of the case and either loose, or being replaced. usually this happens when a single drive isnt working and has already been replaced or is temporarily not being used. So an external use 2.0 case wouldn't be a bad idea.