Can I plug a 7 pin SATA data cable and 15 pin SATA power cable into a 22 pin hard drive

Luna_4

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May 6, 2017
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The mobo in my laptop died so I wanna take the hard drive out and put it into my desktop, but the hard drive has a 22 pin SATA connection that does both power and data, could I simply plug two cables into the hard drive or would I have to get an adapter?
 
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Generally, a laptop drive is simply a regular drive, but with a proprietary adapter to talk to the laptop board.

Remove whatever that interface is, and you should see regular SATA data and power connections, just like any other drive, laptop or otherwise.

USAFRet

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Generally, a laptop drive is simply a regular drive, but with a proprietary adapter to talk to the laptop board.

Remove whatever that interface is, and you should see regular SATA data and power connections, just like any other drive, laptop or otherwise.

 
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