[Gllug] OT Old laptop hard drive

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Dylan wrote:

> I've got a hard drive from an old Toshiba laptop (circa 1994). The laptop is 
> now fully defunct, but the drive has some data on it I'd really like to 
> access. It always reported as an IDE device, and has a connector similar to 
> (but smaller than) a standard IDE connector (complete with missing pin for 
> location) but no power connector. There are 44 pins on the connector 
> (including the missing locator pin) so I figure some (?4) are for power.

You can get converters to allow you to use a 2.5" drive such as the one 
you have on a "normal" PC.

LinITX sell them - 
http://linitx.com/shop/product_info.php/cPath/11_25/products_id/219

Jason Clifford
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