New SSD doesn’t line up in laptop

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Bill_50

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Ordered PNY CS1311 SSD assuming any 2.5” would line up with the pins in my Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402. I removed the old harddrive from the caddy, screwed in the SSD and then discovered the mismatch as show in the photo. I’m really hoping I’m doing something wrong, but don’t see how. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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This does not have anything to do with PNY, just a matter of moving the drive adapter over. There are no issues with the drive, just the fact that some laptop models use those adapters.

This picture for a drive adapter for an HP laptop shows exactly what you have. Hopefully that clears things up for you.

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Bill_50

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I think I tried that before I put it all back together with the old HD. But I'll take it back down and check. I hope I'm not that stupid. I really wanted it to work. I'll let you know. Thank you sir.
(an afterthought: usually things like that are drilled so that you can't make that kind of mistake.)
 
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Do they even make SSDs with IDE connection? I'm guessing you'd be better off keeping your SATA SSD and getting some IDE to SATA adapter to connect it.
 
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What you have is a hard-drive adapter that fits over the regular SATA pins on the drive, unless for some reason Toshiba had custom drives made for them. Look at the original drive, you should be able to pull that connector off the end and use it on the new drive.
 
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Bill_50

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Now that's an interesting proposition. Michael Trenton suggested adding an adapter. I don't have room for the added length. Your suggestion would result in a shorter overall length. I'll have to tear into again to find out. I probably will. This particular laptop has NO hatches on the case. Even replacing a CMOS battery requires taking out the motherboard. Learning a lot though.
 
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Bill_50

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Nope. Cannot remove or add anything. The socket on the mobo is designed to receive fins that get lowered into it as the installer holds on to a little ribbon-like handle. SATA has one large blade that slides horizontally into a socket with one big slot (with the exception of a plastic orientation block ). Going further on this 2009 laptop simply ain't worth any rigging that may or may not work. It's pig-slow, but it does run. I'll hang on to the PNY SSD for some future project. Amazon shouldn't have to eat it.
 
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The hard drive you removed should have the adapter that matches that motherboard socket. That is not an IDE nor a SATA connection, that is an add-on adapter that fits over those connections on the hard drive. You need to take the original hard drive and look at it, it either has that adapter over the regular pins or it was a custom made drive with the connections on it.

Grab a hold of the black plastic around the original drive connector with some pliers and gently wiggle the connection back from the drive, I'm going to guess that it will come off revealing the standard hard drive connections. I have worked on many laptops that have those connectors and that is exactly how they work, they just slide over the standard hard drive pins. If that does not come off, then Toshiba had the drive vendor make them a custom board for the hard drive and you can't do anything there.
 
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Bill_50

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Okay. Maybe I wasn't following you before. If I now understand your suggestion, I would remove the adapter from the original mechanical HD, then put that same adapter over my new PNY ssd. By doing so-- the PNY would be changed so that it would lower down into the existing female socket bar soldered to the mobo. Right?
 
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Yes, take adapter from old drive, put on new drive, it will fit the laptop then.
 
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Bill_50

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Eager to do this. But first-- have to wait for HD restore to get everything back to out-of-box state. Then, I'll clone the SSD again to make sure I haven't somehow screwed it up. Then, I'll tear into the thing again. As I've said before-- you can't do anything on this Toshiba without taking it apart. By the way-- PNY reps are monitoring this string.
 
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This does not have anything to do with PNY, just a matter of moving the drive adapter over. There are no issues with the drive, just the fact that some laptop models use those adapters.

This picture for a drive adapter for an HP laptop shows exactly what you have. Hopefully that clears things up for you.

s-l1600.jpg
 
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Bill_50

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"This does not have anything to do with PNY..."
Yes. I got that. I just thought it was interesting that they, too, were curious to see how this turned out. I had requested a solution and while they were searching the web, they ran across this thread.
 
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Bill_50

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EUREKA! YES! You were exactly right. The adapter slides right off revealing a blade affair. Can't wait to get it all back together. Thanks very much!
 
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