Need some laptop hard drive help/advice
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padre31luxury_boxOPWell with the offseason in full effect I've started to mess around with some older laptops and have run into a couple of questions:
-I have a 80 gb Serial ATA (sata?) hard drive that I mistakenly bought some time ago for a IDE laptop, does anyone know of an adapter that converts SATA to IDE? I have a nicer old 15 inch screen Gateway laptop I want to use it in.
-What are the Solid State Flash Card to IDE adapters? I've heard of them but am unsure if they would work on a laptop with a BIOS from 1999 (Phoenix)?
I've noticed those Solid State Adapters do come in a IDE 44 pin platform and they are quite cheap at around 3 bucks, but am unsure if they would work on such an old box.
The OS I'd like to set up is a XP/Linux or XP/Win98 dual boot system.
Desidesforum_veteranAs far as I know, there are no laptop SATA to IDE converters.
Solid State Flash Card? Do you mean Solid State Drive (SSD)? If so, no, those don’t work in IDE at all. The technology is too new, IDE is too old.
"Not you." — Tywin Lannister
padre31luxury_box"Desides wrote:
As far as I know, there are no laptop SATA to IDE converters.
http://www.cooldrives.com/sahadradtoid.html
Not 100% that is what I need though, the backside looks correct but cannot see the front side, I'd think the front would be larger to accommodate the 44 pins(?).
What I could use is some better leads on where to start looking as Google just swamps me with Ads with little substance.
Solid State Flash Card? Do you mean Solid State Drive (SSD)? If so, no, those don’t work in IDE at all. The technology is too new, IDE is too old.
http://www.opentip.com/Electronics-Computers/Cablestobuy-Cf-To-Ide-Inch-Adapter-p-1223711.html
The CF To IDE 2.5 Inch adapter is transparent to the operating system and does not require any drivers. With this adapter, the host PC will identify the inserted CF card as a standard IDE hard disk. As such, you can install any operating systems and the CF card will be bootable , CF card offer the benefit of low power consumption, no acoustic noise, cost efficient and fast read access time , avoid damaging mechanical HDD cause of by turnning on/off power frequently.
Features:
44-Pin standard male IDE connector.
50-Pin standard compact flash socket.
Power supply from IDE.
Jumper for IDE 2.5 inch .
Also compatible with IDE port for 2.5" harddisk drive.
Activity indicator LED.
Compatible with Compact Flash Type I, Type II, and support IBM Micro-drive with CF-II interface.
Supports DMA and Ultra DMA modes. A compatible flash media card will be required to use these modes.
Compatible* with DOS, Windows 3.1, NT4, 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP, Vista, Unix, Linux
My problem with that adapter is not whether it will work, but how does it fit, or does it fit, into the old laptop hard drive caddy?
I'd guess the way it would work is you simply assemble the "hard drive" with the Flash Cards, insert it into the drive bay and boot as normal and just format the things(?) with whatever OS.
If that can be used then perfectly servicible old laptops (say 1000 mhz and 1 gb memory) can be recycled far more cheaply than having to buy a hard drive and caddy and the whole bit.
Desidesforum_veteran"padre31 wrote:
http://www.cooldrives.com/sahadradtoid.html
Not 100% that is what I need though, the backside looks correct but cannot see the front side, I'd think the front would be larger to accommodate the 44 pins(?).
Oh, one of those things. I always thought those were case attachment pieces. :lol:
What I could use is some better leads on where to start looking as Google just swamps me with Ads with little substance.
Newegg.com.
My problem with that adapter is not whether it will work, but how does it fit, or does it fit, into the old laptop hard drive caddy?
I have no idea what that is.
"Not you." — Tywin Lannister
padre31luxury_box"Desides wrote:
Oh, one of those things. I always thought those were case attachment pieces. :lol:
I suspect if it is not Apple, it does not exist in your world Des..:lol:
Newegg.com.
Not 100% sure of what I'm seeing though.
I have no idea what that is.
Fairly simple Des, you plug in Compact Flash card(s) and the 44 pins on the front of the adapter just plugs into the 44 pins slots on the laptop motherboard...I think.
Real question for is whether the device plugs directly into the laptop, or if you have to have the hard drive caddy as well.
Back..*cough* *cough* in the old days, you'd have to purchase the IDE HD itself and sellers would pull the HD caddy and sell it seperately.
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