The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    DOH! New hard drive doesn't fit??

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dfarrales, Jul 1, 2007.

  1. dfarrales

    dfarrales Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I was all excited as I cloned my new 160GB Seagate laptop hard drive for my E1505 (Inspiron 6400) only to find out that it has a different set of pins (??) in the back of the hard drive.

    Anyone know what I'm talking about? Is there a way to change them out w/ the old drive or any kind of adapter out there? Am I SOL?
     
    dfarrales, Jul 1, 2007
    #1
  2. Thanol

    Thanol Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    74
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I don't think so. You probably bought a ATA hard drive instead of a SATA one that your laptop uses.
     
    Thanol, Jul 1, 2007
    #2
  3. Fall3nAng3l

    Fall3nAng3l Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    49
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    You can use a SATA to 3.5'' and 3.5'' to 2.5 inch adaptor- but the hard disk would jut out of the laptop and it would be fragile...
     
    Fall3nAng3l, Jul 1, 2007
    #3
  4. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    3,266
    Messages:
    7,360
    Likes Received:
    14
    Trophy Points:
    206
    You probably did not buy the right one?

    Most laptops use 2.5" SATA hard drives.
     
    usapatriot, Jul 1, 2007
    #4
  5. dfarrales

    dfarrales Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    ouch, looks like i bought the ATA version... is Serial ATA the same as SATA?
     
    dfarrales, Jul 1, 2007
    #5
  6. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    4,242
    Messages:
    3,088
    Likes Received:
    510
    Trophy Points:
    181
    What is the HDD model number ?
     
    mujtaba, Jul 1, 2007
    #6
  7. dfarrales

    dfarrales Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    st9160821a-rk... i think that's what it is.

    btw, i'll need a new 2.5 hd enclosure for the new SATA HDD but the ones i see on ebay all say they only support up to 120GB... i wanted to purchase another 160GB HDD.

    anyone know of an enclosure that supports 160GB?
     
    dfarrales, Jul 1, 2007
    #7
  8. dfarrales

    dfarrales Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5

    disregard... i found some hi capacity enclosures.

    thanks for all the quick replies :D
     
    dfarrales, Jul 1, 2007
    #8