Accessing data from a toshiba HD

I would personally just pick up a hard drive dock
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=hard+drive+dock&x=0&y=0

Open the Desktop and check whether there aren't any extra SATA cables inside. If there is, just connect it using those. If not, and if your Desktop supports SATA, you just need an extra SATA cable, and if there is no SATA power cable left, such one too.

Thanks for the info but neither resolve.  I have BlacX Sata USB docking station but drive doesn't fit nor does it fit standard PC Sata cable.

Whats the model # of the drive? Is it a 1.8" drive?

Can you attach a picture of the connectors of this disk, and send the exact part number? SATA disks should have a standard connector that's the same all over.

Or maybe your maybe your notebook uses a special adapter or caddy which attaches to the HD, and that adapter or caddy hasn't been removed yet?

All sata connectors have a standard connector, whether the drive comes from a laptop or a desktop computer, but in order for the sata drive to work in a laptop or notebook, the hard drive is placed in a hard drive caddy which has its own type of connector. You need to either frirst remove the drive from the hard drive connector, or remove the extra connector that covers the sata connectors as rindi has already stated. If the drive is already removed from the caddy and the connectors still do not look like typical sata connectors, you still need to remove this external connector and the sata connectors will be underneath this connector.

Here are 2 photos with the External connector removed.....2 views.  You can also see the model of the drive which is a 1.8" drive.
Thanks

I can probably use the product in the link and connect the sata cable to my pc and see the drive that way.  The external connector allow you to attach to an HP 2540 laptop.  You don't slide it in....you press it down.  

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