[ltp] Hardware Question regarding salvaging HDD's

[Jim Hughes]

As far as I know I haven't seen anything similiar to that for a pci slot.  I 
have seen and used a adapter that connects to the laptop hdd and then 
connects to the ide cable.  You can go to pricewatch.com and pick one up for 
around 5 bucks and that is including shipping.

Hope this helps.

Jim



On Tuesday 13 April 2004 04:33, Ted Potter 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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