DV9000 HDD bracket problem?

Hi I know there are a few threads on the secondary bracket, but mine focuses more on the adapter.

I did receive the kit from HP partsurfer and it came with the SATA adapter. Unfortunately my 120gb hard drive lifted from my old dell is a PATA aka ATA, it has 44 pins.

Talked on the telephone with CR for hours, they say that they don't have it with the PATA(parallel), yet I've seen people post pics of their kits coming with the PATA adapters.

I am becoming quite fed up and am wondering if anyone know that specific part number or where i could get a pata adapter. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS PART IS CALLED? Like pata to ---- what kind of female end?

So if someone can tell me where to get one or would like to trade their pata for my sata, let me know and thank you all so much.

 

Well, you really cannot connect a PATA HDD to a SATA port using the HP PATA adaptor since it is just an adaptor. It wont do a PATA to a SATA conversion. You will need a SATA hard drive to use in your system.

 

HMMM. Are you sure the PATA adapter doesn't have the right port that fits into the DV9000? If the adapter doesn't fit into the port then why was HP even shipping them out?

From my impression reading this thread, I figure those PATA adapters do fit in the DV9000 and that a ATA or PATA hard drive will work.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=106014&highlight=dv9000+ata

I may be totally wrong. The thread doesn't state whether the PATA adapter did work. Although people were offering to trade their adapters with each other, so I infer again that it does work.

PLEASE HELP!

 

The system is only capable of using SATA hard drives. The Intel 945PM chipset used in the dv9000t only supports SATA HDD's and so you cannot really use a PATA HDD with the system unless you get a PATA to SATA convertor (like this). This would work fine in a desktop but in a laptop given the space constraints, such a system is not possible.

 

I am going to research if a part like the one linked is even available for the laptop. I hope there is a way around this. Thanks for your info, it was helpful. If you find another way around it, please let me know. Thanks.