Laptop HD question

GrandmaLS

GrandmaLS

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Ok, so my old laptop (HP DVI9000i.....or something like that) crapped out on me like 6 months ago. It has like all my pictures and music from the last 10 years on it. Can I take the main HD out of that and put it into the secondary HD slot on my new, temporary, laptop (HP G60)? I know with PC's there are basically 2 types of HD's. There is the old school style and the new SATA. Is it pretty much the same with laptops or am I pretty much F'd and losing all my stuff?
 
You'd probably be better off buying a 2.5" USB external HDD enclosure... pulling the disk out of your old laptop, and putting it in the enclosure... hooked up to either your new laptop or desktop to transfer files.

I don't know your old or new laptop config, but very few laptops support multiple HDDs.

And yes, there 2 types of HDD interfaces for laptop HDDs... ATA/IDE and SATA.
 
Actually both my laptops have 2 HD's. I'm just hoping they are the same format...ATA or SATA. They are both newer than 3 years old. My older one was a 17" widescreen with 160gig HD's. This newest one was bought as something to get me by for a bit and is 15" and 120gig HD's. I was mostly unsure if it was worth my time to attempt it. Didn't know if laptops had 2-3 styles/size HD's or if there were like 100 out there. Might be worth my time to take this one into work and try and swap them this weekend.
 
Before you buy a new hard drive, make sure yours isnt a proprietary connection. My moms HP takes a non-standard SATA connection for the hard drive, which isnt readily available anywhere but HP. The SATA plug is built into the hard drive, and the connection that would normally be on there, is on the motherboard....basically reversed.
 
Tin said:
Before you buy a new hard drive, make sure yours isnt a proprietary connection. My moms HP takes a non-standard SATA connection for the hard drive, which isnt readily available anywhere but HP. The SATA plug is built into the hard drive, and the connection that would normally be on there, is on the motherboard....basically reversed.
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You just use one of these little adapters on the web or ebay, I tracked one down for a guy not to long ago. You can re-use the one from the old drive.
 
I have taken apart every single HP model available and there is no proprietary SATA connection in any laptops. You probably thought the SATA adapter was actually a SATA plug which is pretty funny because they pop right off to expose the hard drives real connectors.

This is the part that confused you:

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Tin said:
Before you buy a new hard drive, make sure yours isnt a proprietary connection. My moms HP takes a non-standard SATA connection for the hard drive, which isnt readily available anywhere but HP. The SATA plug is built into the hard drive, and the connection that would normally be on there, is on the motherboard....basically reversed.
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LT1Pat said:
I have taken apart every single HP model available and there is no proprietary SATA connection in any laptops. You probably thought the SATA adapter was actually a SATA plug which is pretty funny because they pop right off to expose the hard drives real connectors.

This is the part that confused you:

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Yep thats it!
 
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