My friend's laptop just completely died after years of being screwed up. It turns on, the screen goes black, and it turns itself off -- you can't access the bios or anything.

He's fed up with it and has decided to build a new computer. (No, this is not another 'what should be in my computer' thread.) To make a long story short, he has a lot of stuff on his laptop hard drive that he doesn't want to lose. I told him I'd take the hard drive and burn him some DVDs with his important stuff on it, or that we could hook it up to his new computer and copy it over.

Here's the issue: I've never dealt with laptop hardware before, but there are a few things strange about this hard drive:
1. There's no place for a standard power cable to be plugged in.
2. It has fourty-seven little pins instead of whatevers standard for IDE, arranged like so:

(Except the alignment is the same between rows)
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What's the deal? Is this a SCSI drive? Does it communicate via voodoo magic? How can we recover the data from his hard drive?


(Edit: Wow @ "Kaptop")
(Edit2: MK 4018GAP, Toshiba HDD2166)

You need one of these:
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705

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You need one of these:
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705
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Awesome. Thanks.