Haplo on 16/8/2008 at 23:55
Hi all,
I want to connect a 3.5" desktop hard drive to my laptop. I don't want to use a USB enclosure, I want to connect it to the laptop IDE port. Has anyone done such a thing or knows if a converter exists? Searching the net was not very fruitful.
This converter has to convert the 2.5" 44-pin to 3.5" 40-pin, has to have a ribbon cable to extend from the bottom of tha laptop, and has to provide power to the 3.5" drive too (either directly from the laptop or using an external power supply).
Please let me know if you are aware of any such connectors. Thanks.
Kyloe on 17/8/2008 at 07:37
The 44-pin connector is a miniaturized 40-pin IDE connector with power supply. You can get a converter for them. Since you have to fit it into the drive bay instead of putting it on the drive itself, you have to check whether the pin order stays correct. You might need another ribbon cable as well - the converter will be as wide as a 40-pin connector.
I wouldn't use the notebook's power supply for a 3,5" drive, though. All USB enclosures will come with a separate power supply.
bikerdude on 17/8/2008 at 15:28
OK
1. why..?
2. If you want to go through with this the IDE connector on the laptop motherboard has to be the standard 2.5" 44 pin type otherwise this aint gonna happen.
3. you will need a 3.5 to 2.5 ide cable adapter.
4. you have to power the 3.5" hard drive from the laptop somehow, (and no, you cant pull power from the ide port in the laptop as the initial spin-up surge of the 3.5" might overload the laptop and it go pop!)
5. you can buy 2.5/3.5"-to-USB adapters for peanut's these days...
biker
Haplo on 17/8/2008 at 22:57
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
OK
1. why..?
2. If you want to go through with this the IDE connector on the laptop motherboard has to be the standard 2.5" 44 pin type otherwise this aint gonna happen.
3. you will need a 3.5 to 2.5 ide cable adapter.
4. you have to power the 3.5" hard drive from the laptop somehow, (and no, you cant pull power from the ide port in the laptop as the initial spin-up surge of the 3.5" might overload the laptop and it go pop!)
5. you can buy 2.5/3.5"-to-USB adapters for peanut's these days...
biker
1. Because I have an old laptop with a dying hard drive, and it is not worth buying a new drive for it, and I already have a 300GB 3.5" drive sitting on the shelf collecting dust.
2, 3, 4. Didn't I say all these myself in my original message?
5. I know. And as I said in my original message, this is not the solution I am looking for.
