Wednesday, December 10, 2014

laptop - What kind of hard drive connector is this?



This is a laptop hard drive. It's from a 2001 model Compaq Armada M700. The label on th disk says it's a Toshiba, MK3017GAP hdd2159 (although searching for that throws up a drive with a standard IDE connector.



My hard drive connector



What kind of connector is it? I need to get a USB converter for it. For context, it is not a normal sata or pata connector:
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So what is it?



Answer



From "Armada M700 Hard Drive Installation Guide":





  1. Lift the bezel up 90 degrees to create a handle. Pull the hard drive out of the hard drive bay.

  2. Remove the 4 black screws at each corner and lift off the black tray.

  3. Gently remove the silver bracket and connector.

  4. Place connector on new hard drive.





So there's probably an adapter that converts PATA on the drive to that proprietary connector.



Daniel B (in comments) found a picture of that adapter off the drive:



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So you should be able to pull it off the drive, and then use any PATA->USB adapter you'd like.


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