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mpblake   08-21-2011 at 03:07:45 AM

Hello,
i wanted to replace my fried hard drive.i was told my 8 year old toshiba had a sata disk drive.i bought a western digital hard dive.the cnnectors are not even close.the old drive has two rows of pins.the new drive has flat connectos that are seperated into 3 sections.did i buy the wrong drive. HELP !

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tokencode   08-21-2011 at 03:15:20 AM

Your old harddrive is a PATA harddrive and your new one is SATA

http://www.amazon.com/SATA-PATA-Dr [...] B002Y2NI4M

There is a converter for $0.90

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