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Transferring Laptop Hard drive to Desktop

Started by Salil Surendran , Aug 09 2010 02:38 PM

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Salil Surendran

Posted 09 August 2010 - 02:38 PM

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Hello All,
I had a Dell Inspiron 9100 Laptop that had a 2.5" Fujitsu hard drive. I got a standard 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adaptor. However, it doesn't fit my laptop hard drive because the connectors are different. I can't seem to find the connectors on my laptop hard drive anywhere on the web and it seems to be very different from the connectors on other 2.5" hard drives I see on the web. Here is an image of the connectors on my laptop hard drive Posted Image

and here is the adaptor I got from amazon http://www.amazon.co...ef=oss_product. Please do let me know what sort of adaptor should I get to connect this 2.5" harddrive to my desktop

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dsenette

Posted 09 August 2010 - 02:54 PM

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what's the model number off of the laptop? what's the model number off of the hard drive?

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dsenette

Posted 09 August 2010 - 02:56 PM

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AHA! that's why it doesn't look right....the thing with the pins on it...that's screwed on to the hard drive isn't it? like if you flip that drive over. there's 4 to 6 screws on the underside along the perimiter right?