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I want to replace the hard drive in my IBM Thinkpad with a faster 20Gig
HDD. The Thinkpad has Win98SE on it. I tried a USB drive enclosure
purchased from InsideComputer.com, but I couldn't get the unit to be
recognized. (Admittedly it was an on-sale item for $9.99, and it wouldn't
work in any computer I tried. There sending me a new one.) Next I tried a
drive converter that's supposed to allow you to connect 2.5" HDD's to a
desktop PC. The converters also came from InsideComputer.com and are a
small circuit board with provisions for a standard power plug and IDE
cable with a plug for the 2.5"HDD on the other side. Tried for days to
come up with a combination where I could get both 2.5" drives to work with
the PC's 3.5" drive, but no luck. I'm beginning to think the converters
are defective. Is there an easy way to copy a laptop HDD for replacement?

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Never had trouble with a 2.5" adapter. Are you going into the bios and
seeing the drive? Sure you're hooking up the adapter and power supply
correctly?

"JTJersey" <> wrote in message
newsan.2004.05.31.13.36.56.296475@anotherlinuxma chine.com...
> I want to replace the hard drive in my IBM Thinkpad with a faster 20Gig
> HDD. The Thinkpad has Win98SE on it. I tried a USB drive enclosure
> purchased from InsideComputer.com, but I couldn't get the unit to be
> recognized. (Admittedly it was an on-sale item for $9.99, and it wouldn't
> work in any computer I tried. There sending me a new one.) Next I tried a
> drive converter that's supposed to allow you to connect 2.5" HDD's to a
> desktop PC. The converters also came from InsideComputer.com and are a
> small circuit board with provisions for a standard power plug and IDE
> cable with a plug for the 2.5"HDD on the other side. Tried for days to
> come up with a combination where I could get both 2.5" drives to work with
> the PC's 3.5" drive, but no luck. I'm beginning to think the converters
> are defective. Is there an easy way to copy a laptop HDD for replacement?
>
> --
> Registered Linux User #267152
>
>

On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:25:39 +0000, Michael-NC wrote:

> Never had trouble with a 2.5" adapter. Are you going into the bios and
> seeing the drive? Sure you're hooking up the adapter and power supply
> correctly?


There's nothing on the adapters (I bought two of them) to indicate pin #1
so I've been guessing. The BIOS hasn't show anything for either of the two
2.5" drives I've got under any of the configurations I've tried. I've
tried setting jumpers to Master/Slave in various combinations with the
main HDD and also on the secondary IDE connector. I'm surprised I'm
having this much trouble. This is a no brainer using standard 3.5" drives
on a desktop PC.

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"JTJersey" <> wrote in message
newsan.2004.05.31.17.24.49.733311@anotherlinuxma chine.com...
> On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:25:39 +0000, Michael-NC wrote:
>
> > Never had trouble with a 2.5" adapter. Are you going into the bios and
> > seeing the drive? Sure you're hooking up the adapter and power supply
> > correctly?
>
>
> There's nothing on the adapters (I bought two of them) to indicate pin #1
> so I've been guessing. The BIOS hasn't show anything for either of the two
> 2.5" drives I've got under any of the configurations I've tried. I've
> tried setting jumpers to Master/Slave in various combinations with the
> main HDD and also on the secondary IDE connector. I'm surprised I'm
> having this much trouble. This is a no brainer using standard 3.5" drives
> on a desktop PC.

Pin 1 on the drive is closest to the 4 jumper pins that are separated by a
space from the main set of 44 pins. With the adapter plugged into the drive,
pin 1 on the ribbon cable should orient to the same side of the adapter,
logically following through to the same set of pins on the drive.

On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:58:17 -0400, Thor wrote:

> Pin 1 on the drive is closest to the 4 jumper pins that are separated by
> a space from the main set of 44 pins. With the adapter plugged into the
> drive, pin 1 on the ribbon cable should orient to the same side of the
> adapter, logically following through to the same set of pins on the
> drive.

Thanks, makes sense. Basically the adapter is just a pass through
connector I guess. I'm still not getting a read on the 2.5" HDD in the
BIOS though. Tried jumper settings all over the place. I was anticipating
setting the 3.5" drive in the PC to Master and the 2.5" drive on the
adapter to Slave. It doesn't seem as if the 2.5" HDD is running. The
power connector is in as far as it can go, but I should be able to hear or
feel some motion from the drive, but I don't. Again I'm wondering if both
of these adapters I bought are bad. Could be my luck.

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