Posted on 11/26/2004 10:59:07 AM PST by boris
Wondering if any freeper can help. I've tried Fry's, HP, and Radio Shack: no joy.
I gave a friend's daughter an HP laptop last year as a college-entrance present. It lasted 6 months and someone gave it a big cup of coke. We managed to save the HD.
Now I am trying to put the drive in a standard desktop PC. I bought a kit which provides spacers and a special header to bring power in thru the HD pinouts.
Then the big surprise. THE PINS ON THE LAPTOP PC DRIVE (and the adapter) DO NOT MATCH a STANDARD IDE CABLE!
So what I am looking for is an IDE cable as follows:
End #1 is standard IDE female (for connecting to the PC mobo). End #2 is a standard IDE female (for connecting to the original PC HD. End #3 is a NON-STANDARD cable suitable for connection to the laptop PC. Will settle for some sort of adapter that resolves the pinout difference. Can anybody point me in the right direction, or should I just give up?...Thanks, and yes, I AM logged in.
--Boris
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705
would this work?
I have such an adapter in my hand right now, and I don't understand what you mean by "the pins don't match the standard ide..."
You can't fit it in the IDE cable, or it fits, but the drive doesn't work?
good luck.....maybe a computer shop could transfer the needed data to a CD.
Do you have one? Fry's should have one, I doubt Radio Shack does.
Pins on a laptop HD (being much smaller in size to fit IN a laptop) are not the same as a standard IDE HD found in most PC's
The adapter shown above will work. You connect that to the laptop HD, and your desktop IDE cable and power connect to the adapter.
Pins on a laptop HD (being much smaller in size to fit IN a laptop) are not the same as a standard IDE HD found in most PC's
The adapter shown above will work. You connect that to the laptop HD, and your desktop IDE cable and power connect to the adapter.
however, even if you are able to make this conversion, please be aware that any modern Windows OS (i.e. 2000 or newer) is not going to work well when transplanted into a different PC, due to drivers and such. you may wind up reformatting.
Well, let's be precise. The pinout is the same, but the pin spacing is wrong.
I believe Boris will (and should) install the laptop drive as a secondary drive only for the purpose of extracting the data files thereon. As you say, he can't and shouldn't try to boot that laptop drive...won't work.
But for heaven's sake, don't format that laptop drive until the data has been extracted.
also worth noting, after someone's good advice above about using it as a secondary - there's slim but real chance that the drive was NTFS-formatted, and/or otherwise security-restricted at the file level. this can throw one last wrench in retrieving the data, depending on which OS you're using to do so. in most cases, it can be done even IF this happens. just noting this to keep you from giving up if it does.
You have to take the notebook hardrive out of it's holder and remove the HP ribbon connector for this to work.
Boris, what I was going to point out to you about these adapters is that sometimes they have one pin too many.
The IDE ribbon cable has one spot blacked out...there's no hole for the pin to fit. This is done on purpose to establish only one way to plug the cable in place. The adapter I bought had all 40 pins, and to get the thing to work, I actually had to bend one of the pins out of the way.
It was a wrinkle I had not expected, and at first I thought I had been ripped off...after all, the cable was supposed to fit, but didn't.
If the drive is security-restricted, there's a very good chance that Linux will be able to read the data, because I believe Linux will ignore the security restrictions.
Even if encrypted, a brute-force method under Linux (hashing?) can usually get through.
That's important. The drive when removed from its holder looks like this:
You can use this drive adapter to make the drive conenctable via USB if you want it.
http://www.xpcgear.com/usbideadapter.html
Or you can use any 2.5" storage Encolsure. A bit more expensive than a cable but nor bad should be around $20
Here is a nice aluminium one for $17
http://www.xpcgear.com/ue201.html
I only have one other comment...
You went to Fry's to ASK A QUESTION... HEHEHEHE What were you thinking? :-)
Hey Boris,
Are you there? You gettin' this?
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