What type of IDE is this?

[Noguiguy]

Recently I found an old hdd I wanted to recover the files from. Naturally, the connector is an old IDE standard. My motherboard doesn't have any IDE ports so I need an adapter. The problem is this is a weird standard that I can't find an adapter for. The drive is a 2.5" Hitachi HTS721010g9at00. The connector has 48 pins with a 44 block and then after a one pin gap there are 4 more pins (Picture Below). I don't know if an adapter even exists, today. The confusion continues when you find the hdd on newegg (exact model: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822146052 ) and it says it is IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6. Yet when you find an adapter for this there is a different number of pins... 

 

Any help would be great...

 

Also: to see a photo of this drive just use the newegg ones. I tried to take a photo but it was potato quality: 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822146052

[Sousuke]

Its a laptop style IDE Connector

 

You can get one of these:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IDE-SATA-to-USB-2-0-for-2-5-3-5-laptop-PC-HD-Hard-Drive-HDD-Adapter-Cable-Cord-/111633931839?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19fde69e3f

 

Which will do both 2.5 and 3.5 IDE HDDs.

[Noguiguy]

Thanks guys, now we shall find out what's on it...