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To: boris
Part number NB2PC

You have to take the notebook hardrive out of it's holder and remove the HP ribbon connector for this to work.

15 posted on 11/26/2004 11:15:21 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
You have to take the notebook hardrive out of it's holder and remove the HP ribbon connector for this to work.

That's important. The drive when removed from its holder looks like this:


18 posted on 11/26/2004 11:20:20 AM PST by Petronski (Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
"Boris, you need this:"

Just ordered one as a back-up solution. Thanks.

27 posted on 11/26/2004 9:11:54 PM PST by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
This is very strange. The drive is a Hitachi DK23DA-20F. It measures 2 and 15/16 in width; 3 and 15/16 in length exclusive of pins. With pins it is 4.0 inches. There are 43 pins (as someone mentioned, one is missing) and 4 pins for jumpers. It was powered through the data cable.

The adapter supplied with the initial kit I got is identical but has a power connector. As others pointed out, the pin pitch (spacing) does not match a standard IDE cable. There is no indication on either drive or adapter as to which pin is "pin 1".

I am still researching the problem.

--Boris

31 posted on 11/26/2004 9:56:04 PM PST by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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