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Anonymous   06-25-2004 at 02:43:36 AM

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Hi
I bought a new hard drive, Hitachi IC25N, 20 gb. for a Toshiba satellite pro
4300. On removing the old hdd the connection pins new / old look quite
different. Is this right? I thought that a laptop hdd would be like a PC IDE
drive, it would fit any machine. Wally!
Any advice?
TIA
Chris

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Anonymous   06-25-2004 at 03:25:21 AM
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:43:36 +0100, "roddytoo"
<cfba06985@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi
>I bought a new hard drive, Hitachi IC25N, 20 gb. for a Toshiba satellite pro
>4300. On removing the old hdd the connection pins new / old look quite
>different. Is this right? I thought that a laptop hdd would be like a PC IDE
>drive, it would fit any machine. Wally!
>Any advice?


Look at the drive you removed; I suspect there is an adapter or caddy
thing mounted to it that you'll have to transfer over to the new
drive.

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Anonymous   06-25-2004 at 02:43:37 AM
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roddytoo wrote:
> Hi
> I bought a new hard drive, Hitachi IC25N, 20 gb. for a Toshiba
> satellite pro 4300. On removing the old hdd the connection pins new /
> old look quite different. Is this right? I thought that a laptop hdd
> would be like a PC IDE drive, it would fit any machine. Wally!
> Any advice?
> TIA
> Chris

Take a close look at the old drive. It might be in a drive caddy with
its own pin adapter. There are four screws, two on each side
(typically) which can be removed to release the old drive. The new
drive might fit right in the caddy.

Q

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