HPLC separations involve both the mobile phase (a liquid) and the stationary phase. (usually materials of varying hydrophobicity chemically bonded to a solid support). In. contrast, GC uses the mobile phase only to carry the analyte through the column.
Pulling Data off old HDD. You can get an IDE-to-USB interface, then connect it to your desktop via USB cable. It doesn't matter whether there's an operating system on the hard drive, it will be formatted as an NTFS file system, you just navigate to the files you want and copy them to your desktop's hard drive.
You can connect the desktop hard drive to your laptop via an external USB enclosure. You can do that in order to access the data on the desktop hard drive if the desktop computer is broken. But you cannot use the desktop hard drive INSTEAD OF the laptop drive.onnect it to a free IDE connector on the system board. When you start the computer, you should see the laptop drive in BIOS and in Windows. You can treat this drive as a regular hard drive. In the next post I explain how to access data using an external USB enclosure.