I've bought Eryl a Dell mini 9 netbook for Christmas, which unfortunately has had to be returned due what appears to be a failed BIOS update (though I'm sure I didn't actually press "go" on the update tool).

It got me thinking about data recovery. The mini 9 has a 16GB mini PCI SSD card as its drive.

In a normal laptop if something like this happens I can whip the drive out, back up the data, wipe it and then reinstall the OS before returning it. With this SSD I don't have that option without access to another machine that can deal with a mini PCI SSD card.

Is there a way that I can read/write to one of these cards ? If I replaced the wifi mini PCI card in another laptop with the SSD is there any hope of the laptop seeing the drive ? If not is there some sort of external adapter I can plug it into ?