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    Need help with connecting laptop HD to desktop (pics)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by AznImports602, Nov 15, 2012.

  1. AznImports602

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    So I have a friend who has this laptop from 2001 and need files from that hard drive. Is there anyone can tell me what adapter I can get for this laptop hard drive. It is really small, smaller than laptop hard drives nowadays. I checked out the 2.5 to 3.5 adapters and they are too large for this hard drive. Any suggestions?

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    You could buy a PATA to USB adapter on eBay fairly inexpensively.
     
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    Yeah, that i a big difference: PATA (IDE) vs. SATA.

    Yours looks like IDE to me (what you linked to wouldn't work).
     
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    According to the part number it's a 2.5" pata (IDE) drive.I recommend one of these as it allows you to connect 2.5", 3.5" SATA and IDE drives to USB. There are a lot of different companies selling this type of adapter and they tend to work quite well. I rarely go more than a week without using one of mine on someones drive to recover data.

    USB2SATAIDE USB 2.0 to SATA IDE Adapter
     
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    Thanks but its a 1.8" drive and the link you gave me doesn't have any prongs on the unit. Because as you can tell from the picture that it requires prongs to be connected.
     
    AznImports602, Nov 16, 2012
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    I don't what happened but when I looked up that model number previously it linked to a 2.5" drive. I checked it again and it does come up with a 1.8" with a ZIF socket. The adapter in post number 2 looks like the correct one to me based on the information in the description and the PDF file from Toshiba on that drive.

    Sorry about the mistake.
     
    PapaSmurf69, Nov 16, 2012
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