[Dream] laptop harddrive question

[Bas van Driel]

Hi Pete,

Maybe it's that difference (ATA vs. SATA or something), check the specs 
(laptop and hard drive). Another thing you might want to look at is, 
that some manufacturers have small 'adapters' that you can fit onto the 
hard-drive's interface pins...
  I have a DELL laptop, which has a small separate adapter unit which 
slides over these pins coming out of the harddrive. When the adapter is 
in place, you hardly notice that it is actually a separate part, it 
looks like one solid element of the hard drive...so take a good look at 
that on your old drive. Since the old drive is broken anyway, try to see 
if you can pull anything of the connector (the block of holes/pins), and 
see if it comes off...if it does, you can try to put it on your new 
drive's connector...

If that is not it, I guess it must be some incompatibillity issue...

Good luck.
Bas.

pzuniga01 at comcast.net schreef:
> Hello all,
> I've got a question..My friend was going to replace my harddrive in my 
> gateway laptop 405ROG, due to fryage..I ordered a Western Digital 
> WD1200VE a.k.a WD Scorpio harddrive from newegg, which seemed to be a 
> good deal, but when he went to install it the end adapter was different 
> that my old Toshiba HDD2181 MK3021GAS, he couldn't figure it out, and to 
> the best of my knowledge from what I've researched, it seems my old one 
> might be an ATA, which would be incompatible. If any of you all could 
> help me out on suggestions...I was hoping there would be a better answer 
> to getting another harddrive...thanks in advance...pete
> 
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