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Old Hard Drive - What Connection?

_Froyo
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Long story short, I have an old laptop hard drive I need to get data off of, but the connector on it isn't SATA so I'm trying to figure out which adapter to get. The drive is a 20gb IBM Travelstar IC25N020ATCS04-0, which is supposedly has a standard PATA/IDE connector, but when looking for an adapter, it doesn't look like a standard 40-pin connection. Here are some pictures:

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Does anyone know what kind of connector this is and what to look for when buying an adapter? Is this a regular 40-pin connection after all, making me an idiot?

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Looks like IDE..

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Something like this probably the easiest. 

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2 minutes ago, keskparane said:

Something like this probably the easiest. 

Yeah stuff like that is what I've been looking at, but there's no way the connector on that will be compatible with this hard drive. The only thing I can think of is maybe to get an adapter with a male connector.

 

Thoughts?

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I can't find anything online about it. My guess is that it's a proprietary connector in order to connect that drive to whatever system it was in. You might be able to take the drive out of the casing and remove the connector. It's probably IDE underneath. (Don't take apart the hard drive, just the enclosure it's in.)

 

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42 minutes ago, _Froyo said:

Yeah stuff like that is what I've been looking at, but there's no way the connector on that will be compatible with this hard drive. The only thing I can think of is maybe to get an adapter with a male connector.

 

Thoughts?

Thoughts are you have been given the answer and decided it is wrong. Find some other device then. But with the last of my patience I will tell you that mine works.

 

Oh. Although you do have to remove the drive from the caddy. But that's easy.

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