SATA HDD connection

[DeanMoriarty]

Hello,
I've recently broken my laptop and I'd like to use the HDD in an external enclosure. I've been to Scan today and picked up a SATA enclosure (as my HDD is apparantly SATA) but it won't fit. I've taken a photo of the connections and an identification of the connection and where I might find an enclosure for it would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks

DM

 

[Harvey]

I'm not sure from your pic, but that looks like it could be the connector from an internal hard drive carrier, which is a shell some makers use as an interface between standard connections and their machines. If so, you have to open it up to remove the actual hard drive which should have standard connections.

Check the manual for your machine, or, if it doesn't include specs for the size and interface of the drive and info on replacing it, go to the manufacturer's site, and look for specs and a tech manual with that info.

Hope that helps.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'm not sure from your pic, but that looks like it could be the connector from an internal hard drive carrier, which is a shell some makers use as an interface between standard connections and their machines. If so, you have to open it up to remove the actual hard drive which should have standard connections.

Check the manual for your machine, or, if it doesn't include specs for the size and interface of the drive and info on replacing it, go to the manufacturer's site, and look for specs and a tech manual with that info.

Hope that helps.

I don't think its even in a shell. My Dell Vostro uses the same adapter plug for it's drives. The adapter plug should just pull off.

 

[corkyg]

Remove the connection adapter. H-P lappies use a 90 degree adapter in a caddy. Lenovo uses a caddy with no adapter.

 

[sxr7171]

Sure it does like anything you ask a computer to do will affect it. But how much depends exactly as people have mentioned, the sizes and numbers of files. Ultimately it is likely negligible compared to the time your data will take to transfer. However, that dialog box is never very accurate in any case at least IME.