- Feb 5, 2012
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Hi all,
my 7 years old laptop died last year, and I have important softwares and data in the SATA hard-disk of the late laptop.
Now I want to use that hard-disk with my desktop PC. The hard-disk stickers/labels state that it is a SATA disk, however the pins are quite different.
I intend to buy something like 2.5" -to- 3.5" SATA adapter
(or 2.5" SATA -to- USB 3.0 adapter, if Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10 on that hard-disk can boot from USB 3.0 interface)
or any device that would serve the purpose. But this hard-disk (with 7+15 pins) doesn't seem to fit with the existing SATA adapters.
Here are some photos of the hard-disk:
While the SATA pins in all other hard-disk in my desktop/newer laptops are horizontal, like this:
Please guide me , what kind of hard-disk is this, and what kind of adapter would be required to use this as a regular bootable hard-disk in a desktop PC.
Note: The sticker/label on the disk clearly mentions that it is a SATA disk (5400rpm), and the same was also evident from the BIOS settings of the previous laptop, I had to disable SATA support before installing Windows XP when I got this laptop.
my 7 years old laptop died last year, and I have important softwares and data in the SATA hard-disk of the late laptop.
Now I want to use that hard-disk with my desktop PC. The hard-disk stickers/labels state that it is a SATA disk, however the pins are quite different.
I intend to buy something like 2.5" -to- 3.5" SATA adapter
(or 2.5" SATA -to- USB 3.0 adapter, if Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10 on that hard-disk can boot from USB 3.0 interface)
or any device that would serve the purpose. But this hard-disk (with 7+15 pins) doesn't seem to fit with the existing SATA adapters.
Here are some photos of the hard-disk:
While the SATA pins in all other hard-disk in my desktop/newer laptops are horizontal, like this:
Please guide me , what kind of hard-disk is this, and what kind of adapter would be required to use this as a regular bootable hard-disk in a desktop PC.
Note: The sticker/label on the disk clearly mentions that it is a SATA disk (5400rpm), and the same was also evident from the BIOS settings of the previous laptop, I had to disable SATA support before installing Windows XP when I got this laptop.
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