DV9000 SATA Connector?

So I have in my possession one DV9000 laptop. The video card is fried (external monitor won't work as well) but both hard drives are fine. HP has said that in replacing the vid card, both drives will be wiped.

What I'd like to do is put them in a USB enclosure so I can salvage the data. Reading the specs tells me that the HDDs are SATA, but when I pull them, they are apparently some proprietary SATAish setup. I found an HP part to take a standard 2.5" SATA drive and mate it with the HP drive connector, but nothing going the other way.

Can somebody point me in the direction of the required adapter, or even just what this goofy SATA imposter is called?

 

Once you remove the HP hard drive brackets and proprietary connectors, the drives will connect to any 2.5 external SATA enclosure. They will not connect to your commonplace 2.5 IDE enclosure.

 

Huh! So theres a standard sata connection hiding under there. This nugget is something 4 calls to HP support couldn't tell me. I was beginning to wonder if that goofy connector was soldered down to lock in proprietary hard drive sales.

Thanks a million!

 

Yep, I had to remove mine when I swapped drives. It was on there pretty firmly......

 

Mine came out with just a little tug. I already have an adapter from 3/2.5IDE and SATA to USB but I was tearing my hair out trying to find something to fit over those goofy fins.

Thanks again.