New drive for Dell Inspiron 1210

[neiroatopelcc]

Hello. I've been tasked with finding a replacement drive for a dell netbook. The old drive's completely unresponsive.
Upon taking the unit apart I noticed it was using a flatcable for interface. I've not seen that before (nor disassembled any other netbook). What's that interface called? are all 1.8" drives like that? ie. how do I find a suitable replacement drive that I can actually attach?

 

[Hawkeye22]

Are you sure it's a 1.8" drive and not a 2.5" drive? Anyhow, that sounds like an older P-ATA drive (ATA-100 or ATA-133).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007605+600003442&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=380&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I'm not sure it's an 1,8" drive, but I am sure it's not a 2,5" - it's simply not big enough for that. It's an 80GB drive. I'll upload an image from when I had the thing open last week.

 

[Hawkeye22]

OK, but it still sounds like a P-ATA drive. A SATA drive has card edge connectors, a P-ATA drives has pins which a ribbon cable connects to.

http://www.newmodeus.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=2&chapter=0

 

[neiroatopelcc]

http://opelcc.game-server.cc/WP_000757.jpg

 

[neiroatopelcc]

ye I know that, but I also know that the netbook is based on an intel chip with sata, so would be surprised if it's pata. Anyway - look at the picture. It's definetly not an old pata system.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Why not just go to dell support

http://support.dell.com

and type in your service tag number. It will list everything that system came with.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I'm on thephone with em atm - not the greatest service I've been subjected to

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Still on the bloddy phone with the dell people. waiting in one queue, and then the next. Anyhow google found me a toshiba 60GB drive that looks very much like the broken drive. But it costs like 120 € !!!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Best answer selected by neiroatopelcc.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Am STILL in queue @ dell phone support. I'm giving up and returning to unit to the owner as non repairable.

Best phone service ever!