i need to connect a notebook harddrive to a standart ide cable on a PC does anyone know the schemes for that ? thank you
There are schematics out there, but for ease and reliability you'd be better off buying one. You can get them off ebay for about £3, just serach for "IDE adapter" Something like this.
this is basically the same question except backwards. is there a way to get a 3.5" IDE -->2.5" laptop IDE adapter? i want to use a desktop drive in a laptop im modding.
@mattthegamer Ive never seen a convertor for that, but you could possibly fashion something yourself. Think the tricky bit is getting a male conector for the laptop end.
It's not gonna fit.... I don't know of one, but power would be an issue. You'd need a strong supply, my laptop draws only 10% what my desktop uses You can definately do it as USB, those adapters come with an external power brick though.
Anyine know of a laptop optical to ide for this drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129170
How bout this http://cgi.ebay.ca/NEW-2PCS-2-5-Not...835795011QQcategoryZ41994QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Oops! i didn't see the OP.
http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/47_69/products_id/108 There are plenty of them on eBay too. Just search for Slim IDE adapter. It converts 50-pin ATAPI to 40-pin IDE + a 4-pin floppy power connector + an audio output header.
that is an IDE, its just slim. Load Type Slot Load Interface IDE thats the same drive im getting for my mod project... look for my project soon on the log page..... just need to wait till i buy another dremel and a few other suplies.
Its still an ide meant for laptops, so its not the traditional 40-pin ide of big optical drives. I could be wrong but i have never seen a slim drive that was 40pin ide with no adaptor
Nope, you're dead right. Just like how Serial and Parallel drives are both ATA (advanced transfer attachment, I think) drives, though PATA drives are referred to incorrectly as being IDE more commonly than actually being correctly called PATA (I think IDE is a generic term for 40/80wire cable-based connection). All slim optical drives have the mini-IDE connector (for lack of knowing a technical term, though that might be it). Logic Supply also has slim-optical ATA adaptors: http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/47_69/products_id/108 (they have another one which is 44-pin, some special thing for a couple mini-ITX boards I think, but effectively what the slim hard drives have)
if you have a spear computer lying around why not just share and grant access to change files to the whole hdd in windows and network them together?
