[ltp] Hardware Question regarding salvaging HDD's

[Analabha Roy]

At the same risk of sounding stupid, I believe that both ends of those connectors are
male. Please take a look at the port of my laptop HDD. It's wierd & male too, I believe:


The pics are at 

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/pics2/



 I did do a google search & a search at CompUsa & only found adapters with both ends
male. I need one end (the one that goes into the wierd port of my laptop HDD) to be
female & the other end male (for the IDE controller of desktop, which is female I think).


 Are there any gender changers out there that are compatible? (I'll google it & check, of
course, but I'm just asking if anybody knows off of the top of his head).


Regards,
Analabha



--- Ted Potter <tpotter@techmarin.com> wrote:
> 
> At the risk of sounding stupid, I think they make a card that allows a
> laptop hardrive to be installed as an standard ide hard drive in a
> desktop. It is a pci card with a converter that plugs in to the smaller
> laptop hard drive connector.
> 
> here in the US these devices are carried by CompUsa. A google of these
> devices shows a couple of places to get them.
> 
> Now, shoot me down. There must be something I don't understand.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 22:24, Analabha Roy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> >  I apologize in advance as this question is not directly related to running Linux on
> > Thinkpads, but I'm utterly lost and have nowhere to turn to for information/guidance,
> so
> > any advice would be appreciated tenfold.
> > 
> > 
> >   I had an IBM Thinkpad 770Z in which I had an XP/Linux-mdk-9.1 dual boot and
> everything
> > was fine, until one day it wouldn't boot anymore (not even the BIOS or anything). I
> took
> > it to a shop & they ran a diagnostic & said that the motherboard was damaged beyond
> > repair. Since the peripherals were working fine, I was thinking of maybe salvaging my
> HDD
> > and using it as a portable (it's an IBM Travelstar). I thought that maybe if I got a
> > standard USB hard drive casing (with the IDE-usb adapter in it) and connect the hard
> > drive and put it in the casing, I might be able to mount it in my desktop via USB and
> use
> > it as a 14.1 gig portable drive, after I ghosted all my Linux partitions and
> recovered
> > the data using "dd" in Linux or something (I have a written copy of my partition
> table).
> > Unfortunately, all standard hard drive casings seem to be 12mm thick, and the
> travelstar
> > is 15mm thick, so it won't fit. In addition, the IDE port in the adapter is female, &
> so
> > is the IDE port in the Hard Drive (& they don't have the same # of pins). Accoding to
> the
> > IBM tech people, there are no casings or adapters in which travelstars may fit.
> > 
> >  I was wondering if you could suggest a way by which I might be able to salvage the
> HDD
> > and use it as an external, or, suggest a way to connect it to the IDE controller of
> my
> > desktop via a laptop pin-set-desktop pin-set adapter (if such a thing exists), afraid
> my
> > hardware knowledge is next to negligible so I'm stuck. Also, if all else fails, is
> there
> > a way to format the hard drive (outside of connecting it to another 770Z, I don't
> know of
> > anybody else who has such an old IBM, even penniless grad students like me)?
> > 
> > 
> >   Please let me know if any of the above is possible.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Analabha Roy
> > 
> > 
> > 	
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