T43 Hard-Drive Recovery

Hey all.
So my laptop was knocked off a table by a clumsy friend and now displays a "disk read error" when I attempt to boot it up. It's been giving me problems for a few years now, so I'm ready to cut my losses. My tech savviness is minimal, but I'm hoping that I can salvage what was on my hard drive. I know the amount of pins varies, so I was wondering if anyone knows if this adaptor ( http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705&relatedItem=true ) would work to run the hard drive for my T43 through a desktop.
Thanks.

cshadows2887, welcome to the forum,
yes that cable should work fine and enable you to attach a notebook hard drive to a pc.
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