Laptop question

[Healey]

My wife's HP ze5200 will no longer boot. I'm getting a "lost or corrupt ntfs.sys file" message. I've copied a new ntfs.sys file to the HD using the Xp install cd, but still no go.

At this point I'm ready to first try reinstall Xp, and failing that reformat.

Before I do that I'd like to extract as much info from the HD as possible. I've removed the HD from the lappy, and I have a laptop HD to IDE conector/adapter.

The problem is I can't figure out how to connect the adapter to the paltop HD. Unlike a desktop IDE HD which has seperate power pins, the laptop connection has the power running through the same connector as the data.

It's a IBM Travelstar HD, and from what I can tell the 5+V goes to a pin one in from the outside pair. Ho do I correctly hook this up to the hd?

Thanks!

 

[DaveSimmons]

The laptop to IDE convertor I got from compgeeks.com or newegg.com (forget which) included a pair of screw-on metal things for each side of the drive (to add the extra 1"), plus a pin convertor for the back with a standard IDE power connector soldered to it (red and black wires only).

If your pin adapter is missing the power connector, it could be defective.

 

[Healey]

No, my adapter does have the power plug on leads wired onto the connector backing. Even I can figure ouyt how to plug that in!

It's plugging it onto the lap hd that has me puzzled.

 

[Gunbuster]

pin 1 is by the jumpers on most laptop drives