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What kind of 2.5" HD adapter do I need?
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Sjouke Burry typed on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:18:44 +0100: Ghost2003 runs on freedos form a bootable CD, and does a fine job of making an image copy of an ntfs OS drive. Many thanks Sjouke. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3 |
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What kind of 2.5" HD adapter do I need?
Somewhere on teh intarwebs ~misfit~ wrote:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Paul wrote: wrote: Hello, I decided to replace HD in my laptop. It is HP Pavilion DV2000. I need some kind of adapter to connect it to my desktop (my desktop have SATA and IDE drives) to clone the old HD to a new one. It says my disk is SATA Serial - but I see it is not regular SATA adapter. Here are pictures of my HD: http://www.evkosystems.kgbinternet.c...s/HP-test1.jpg http://www.evkosystems.kgbinternet.c...s/HP-test3.jpg http://www.evkosystems.kgbinternet.c...s/HP-test4.jpg Any idea what kind adapter do I need? Thanks, Zalek Looks like SATA. Comparing this picture of the MHV2100BH from the Newegg site, I'd say there is some kind of adapter in place on the drive you've got there (in your HP-test4.jpg). Maybe it unplugs to reveal the normal SATA interface ? http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/22-116-018-S02?$S640W$ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822116018 That is so typical of HP / Compaq, adding another part that can go wrong when the sata interface itself is designed for multiple insertions. And if you don't believe that a simple passive adapter like that can go wrong I've got a half-dozen HP/Compaq adapters from PATA HDDs that no longer work. It was a real puzzle when I struck the first one and took me a while to decide to buy a new adapter as I wasn't sure.... I've had quite a few go bad since then (of various types) and I dare say these SATA ones will be the same. A money-spinner for HP. Actually Zalek, why do you need to replace the HDD? If it's because it's malfunctioning there's a chance that it could be the adapter that's stuffed rather than the HDD. Worth bearing in mind. -- Shaun. "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'. |
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u can use Ghost (or equivalent) to make an image of the laptop's old HD
on the desktop - then replace the HD and and clone the image onto the new one. That's whet I did when I upgraded my laptop's HD. |
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