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RE: Re: [OT] Laptop IDE drive used in desktop?


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  • Subject: RE: Re: [OT] Laptop IDE drive used in desktop?
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:00:30 +0100
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Are you sure? The 2.5" drives usually supply power down the cable too
and I
think they're a smaller pitch aren't they?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geraint@xxxxxxx [mailto:geraint@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 August 2001 15:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] Laptop IDE drive used in desktop?
>
>
> Shouldn't be a problem.
>
> I have a Dell Latitude and the 2.5" IDE drive in this uses
exactly
> the same connector as standard dekstop ide drives.
> The hard drive is made by IBM.
>
> hth
>
> rgds
> g
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark McCall" <mark@a...> wrote:
> > Getting my laptop HD upgraded this week.  Can I use the old drive
> coming out of it in a desktop machine?  Think I remember seeing a IDE
> cable converted one time to allow this.
> >
> > Anyone know about this or where I'd get one?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > M.
> >
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