Laptop Harddrive in destop

[hbk409]

I have a laptop that died about two years ago, however about a month before it died I upgraded the harddrive to a 120GB drive. Is there anyway to take it out and install it in my desktop?

 

[RandallA]

Fry's and other places sell a hard drive adapter that allow you to use the laptop drive in your desktop. 44 pin to 40 IDE adapter. But I never seen a bracket that will allow you to securely mount it in your desktop.

 

[BigTimMN]

yes, there are a few options. Either an external enclosure that will turn that HD into a portable HD, with a USB connection, or you can find an adapter to convert it to IDE and fit inside your desktop.

I picked up one of those adapters for around $15 here locally, and I know the enclosures would be around 50.

 

[hbk409]

cool thanks i will probably just go with the ide

 

[hbk409]

is this what it would need eBay: New Laptop Notebook HD Hard Drive transfer/rescue kit (item 230146032381 end time Jun-26-07 19:40:47 PDT)

 

[RandallA]

That's it. It comes with the adapter and the brackets.

 

[hbk409]

just ordered it thanks guys

 

[hbk409]

so i got it in the mail today go to hook it up, I have a seagate harddrive and instead of having the pins stick out like on most hard drives they are actually enclosed in plastic? see pic

 

[RandallA]

Does the adapter fit in the laptop drive? On some laptop hard drives you could also remove the adapter.

 

[hbk409]

ok there was and an adaptor on the laptop hard drive i was able to pull off, and put the adaptor plug the covertor I purchased into the laptop. however when I went to hook it up to my desktop the adaptor that has 1 too many pins, the middle pin that is normal out, is there. So I cant attach it to an ata cable.

 

[RandallA]

You should be able to just break the pin and connect the cable. I'm looking at my adapter and it doesn't have that pin in the middle but I've seen some that do. Either you find an IDE cable that has an opening for that middle pin or just break the middle pin.