heres a strange question....

zenji · 01-05-2004, 03:10 AM

has anyone connected their mini laptop hardisk to their desktop pc?

my laptop (thinkpad 600) is slowly crapping out on me, and i've got a great linux system running on it (slackware 9.0) i wonder if i can just snap an ide cable on to the pins on the back of that baby and connect it to my desktop system?

anyone ever tried this?

merlin371 · 01-05-2004, 04:31 AM

I heard that you can do it sometimes they are smaller on the laptop so you can get an adaptor for it

aaa · 01-05-2004, 07:36 AM

And you may need an adapter for the hd itself, i think it's 2 in., so it needs something for it to fit in a 3.5 in. bay.

jspenguin · 01-05-2004, 12:21 PM

You really don't need to mount it in a bay if it's just temporary. One caveat: some laptop hard drives have an extra adaptor on the back of the hard drive to make it easier to pull out. You will have to remove this before hooking it up to the ide adapter.

Shade · 01-05-2004, 12:25 PM

And i'm not sure if you'd need a power adapter, too, or not... I've really never seen a laptop hard drive.

:-D

-Shade

ezra143 · 01-05-2004, 05:43 PM

only problem with this is that ALL the hardware is not going to be the same. So, if it boots, your going to have a ton of reconfig to do... but you knew that.

Tinkster · 01-05-2004, 05:47 PM

The pinout of the 2.5" IDE drives for notebooks
is completely different from normal IDE, and the
flat cable also provides the power for the HDD.
(At least all the ones I've seen ;})

You'll need the adapter/bay solution.

Cheers,
Tink

Whitehat · 01-05-2004, 05:50 PM

I have done it just to get data off of the laptop drive.

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Peace,
Whitehat