Anyone now of a laptop ATA-5 to regular PC IDE cable

[Silverfox]

Hello there all,

I have a Hitachi Model No: DK23EA-30 HD and I would like to connect it
to my PC via the IDE interface.

Does anyone know of such a cable that would do this for me please? I
have already bought the 3.5" IDE to 2.5" laptop connector from maplin
but this is the incorrect one. The HD I have has more like a slot for
its connector rather than pins.

Thank u very much in advance.
Richard

 

[old jon]

Hello there all,

I have a Hitachi Model No: DK23EA-30 HD and I would like to connect it
to my PC via the IDE interface.

Does anyone know of such a cable that would do this for me please? I
have already bought the 3.5" IDE to 2.5" laptop connector from maplin
but this is the incorrect one. The HD I have has more like a slot for
its connector rather than pins.

Thank u very much in advance.
Richard

Why not take the drive to Maplins and show them what you want ?.
bw..OJ

 

[hdrdtd]

Take a close look.

quite often in laptops, the HD itself may be mounted in a sheet metal
'adapter'. The 'adapter' sometimes has the kind of connector you're
describing.

Look at the sides, and see if you can see two screws on each side. That's a
dead giveaway that the HD is indeed mounted in an adapter.

Remove the HD from the laptop adapter, and you should then see a connector
on the back of the HD that is a 44-pin connector. That's where you would
plug in the 2 1/2 HD IDE adapter that you bought.

The adapter you bought should have a 44-pin plug on one side to attache to
the HD, and the other side should have a PC power connector on a short cable
as well as a 40-pin connector that attaches to your PC's IDE cable.

 

[Silverfox]

Thank you very much for that, I should have had a closer look, there is
a black plastic converter on the pins of the HD that converted it to
the Card slot type. I just wipped that off and there were the pins I
needed.

Thanks Again

Regards
Richard Williams