Qestion about Laptop hard drive.

[Nickyct]

I just bought a new hard drive for my laptop and this is the fisrt time I've ever replaced anything on my laptop. Anyway, I didn't Know that there's a connector or some kind of adapter the goes on the hard drive pins prior installation. I didn't realize that connector has to be on the hard drive first (My laptop kept saying that no hard drive found).

Now, I want to use both hard drive on the laptop and don't want to keep pulling that adaptor out everytime I need to use the other hard drive. Is there a place where I can purchase that adaptor. I'm not even really sure what it's called. I try to googled around but nothing came up resemblence to what I'm looking for. If someone could link me to the site I would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

 

[imported_Kensai]

Depends on the model of the laptop. Some utilize a different connector than others.

 

[airfoil]

I cant say its a good thing to repeatedly open up a laptop to switch hard drives. Sooner or later, something's bound to give way. I'd suggest you buy a 2.5" external USB case for the drive you don't use as often as the other.

 

[tiap]

Originally posted by: airfoil
I cant say its a good thing to repeatedly open up a laptop to switch hard drives. Sooner or later, something's bound to give way. I'd suggest you buy a 2.5" external USB case for the drive you don't use as often as the other.

Second that.
The connectors on the laptop's first ide channel or the internal hdrive bay are definately NOT meant to be swapped a lot. For laptops that have a second hot swap bay such as the ultrabay in thinkpads, this is not an issue.

 

[Nickyct]

The reason to that is that I want to run 64bit Linux on that laptop also and I don't want to partition the hard drive. Since I have Home version of XP and I can't trade in for 64bit version. Thought I'd try Linux.

If I use USB2 external enclosure on the hard drive. Will I be able to boot it of that ?