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    2.5" External HD Enclosure Help

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by rageman, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. rageman

    rageman Notebook Deity

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    Okay, I have a HP Pavilion DV6640US that Motherboard fried. I want to use the hard drive out of it w/ an enclosure. So I went and bought :mad: on eBay for $7 and it's not the right one!!!

    My hard drive is a 160gb, and it says Serial AT on the back. The Hard drive enclosure I bought says Serial ATA on it. What gives?

    Can anyone help me pick out what I need? I would like to keep it cheap like the other one was, so I don't mind buying off eBay, as long as it's in the USA.

    Thanks!!

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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Are you sure it's not the right one? Sometimes the HDDs have a proprietary connector that's attached to it that you need to pull off.
     
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  3. rageman

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    HAHA! Stupid me, it was just a caddy!

    Hopefully that caddy will fit my new HDX18t that comes in the next 2 days. It has the option to have 2 HD's, and I only ordered one, just need a caddy to add the second.
     
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    Tommo53 Notebook Guru

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    Let me get this straight, you ordered a caddy off the internet expecting it to have a HDD in it for $7? :confused:
     
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  5. rageman

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    haha, no!

    I ordered the enclosure off line for $7, had the HD already from my Pavilion that's motherboard fried.

    I didn't realize that I had to take the caddy off the Pavilion HD to make it fit the SATA enclosure!

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