[Gllug] OT Old laptop hard drive

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Jun 20 22:10:17 UTC 2003


On Friday, 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 connectors that go between this and a normal IDE connector
plus normal PC internal power. I have one - AIR it came from Maplin.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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