How can I connect a PC desktop harddrive to a laptop?

[mirrorlake]

Need some special device? Where can I find it? Thanx!

 

[soulm4tter]

take the laptop apart and plug the IDE cable to your other hard drive.

 

[mirrorlake]

How about the power supply?

 

[Czar]

You need a special converter for it.

 

[Whitedog]

hehehhehe

 

[samgau]

The laptop HD connectors are not standard IDE connectors (at least on the ones i have worked with) they used a IDE+Power connector..similar to the SCA ( DATA + PWR 80 pin SCSI) connectors..which allow you to totally disconnect the HD by just pulling it out without having to touch the connectors thenselves..

So it looks like you will definetly need a converter...

Sam out

 

[Endymion]

yup, the ones that i have seen do not use the ide connector...

 

[mirrorlake]

I just find a USB hard drive box, could it do the work?

 

[Whitedog]

Why do you want to do this anyway? sounds bizzare.

 

[mirrorlake]

Well, I just moved to US and got my previous data on my hard drive. The place I am working for only has MAC,
and I need transfer my data to my laptop. Guess that is the only way I could do it, except buy a new PC.

 

[Czar]

Ask for a converter at the store. If they dont know about it, then ask someone else.

 

[mirrorlake]

find something, will this one do the work?

http://www.directron.com/usbbox.html