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    Toshiba Harddrive compatibility question.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by crocomut, Jun 27, 2008.

  1. crocomut

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    I don't think it is. That drive is a serial ATA (SATA) device, and I bet your laptop only supports parallel ATA (PATA, or just IDE) drives. Go into the device manager and get the model number of your drive, then do a google search for that and you should be able to find out what type of interface it is.
     
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    Thanks, I'll try what you suggested.
     
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    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yup I just had a look, yesh crocomumt you need a IDE hard drive. (aka UATA, ATA-6, ATA-100) It all gets rather confusing. :p
     
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    That looks like the right thing. I have the 80GB version of that drive in a laptop here and it's been working very well for a couple years at least.
     
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    Excellent, all ordered! Thanks a lot!
     
    crocomut, Jun 27, 2008
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