Help/Advice needed making internal Hd external

Newtown90

I recently thought of turning my old laptop hard drive into an external one for the pvr function in my satellite receiver...

I was pretty "green" and went off and bought an external housing from hong kong on ebay...

When it arrive i noticed that the two connecting piece were not compatible...

I uploaded some pics on photobucket and attached the link...

Any advice, guidance or links would be great...

http://s927.photobucket.com/albums/ad112/glenviewjf/Harddrive/

Cheers...

massy086

can you link to were you bought the hard drive enclosure it looks to me like your cadie is ide and your hard drive is sata

Newtown90

Just checked my ebay messages and it says the enclosure is:

2.5" USB External IDE HDD HD Hard Drive Disk Caddy Case

Should i have got a Sata one?:mad:

massy086

yes there lies your problem what size hd is yours maybe try swopping with someone who has a ide on adverts

Newtown90

Ya its a 250gb think il just order a sata enclosure off ebay, it wont break the bank anyways...

Thanks for your help:D

massy086

ye tru can you just post the model niumber of your hd just so i can be 100% its sata but im 99 .9 that it is

Newtown90

Am its:

Seagate SG - OR5766 - 45G - P0BV

Rev A00

Model : ST93012A

uprising2

Yea your HD is sata(Serial ATA) and the enclosure is pata(Parallel ATA), just get another enclosure problem sorted.

You can buy another pata HD fairly cheap and have 2 ext HD's.

EDIT:
Although the model number when googled brings up a Parallel HD, but first pic is certainly SATA.

Newtown90

Confused.... Been looking at some sata connections and der seems to be a split bout half ways in the connection yet theres none in mine...

What get so? Pata? Sata?

Newtown90

Ok so i bought a 2.5hd enclosure off ebay... It arrive today but again the harddrive will not fit!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Am so like the connection on the harddrive is much too big for the sata connection in the enclosure...

And as i said in sata connections theres a break bit theres none in my hd connection!!

Help :(:(:(:(

marco_polo

Hmm a bit late now perhaps but that looks to me like a proprietary adapter covering a normal 44-pin IDE Connector.

See here for example.

http://www.drivesolutions.com/info/aboutlaptop.shtml

Solitaire

OP: Argh... fuzzy pics are fuzzy I can't make out any detail on them

somakasvh

Its a PATA drive.

You should be able to remove the plastic block with the golden fingers on either side which is attached to the drive, to reveal a standard 44-pin connector.

marco_polo's link shows how it comes apart.

Newtown90

Thanks guys alls well with the connection!!

But!!

Theres always a but!!

Used it in d ide enclosure, all connected up grand, when i connected it to the laptop it said something like installing new device..

Waited it said new device installed!

But when i go to my computer it aint showing up

Voodu Child

Glenviewjf wrote: »

Thanks guys alls well with the connection!!

But!!

Theres always a but!!

Used it in d ide enclosure, all connected up grand, when i connected it to the laptop it said something like installing new device..

Waited it said new device installed!

But when i go to my computer it aint showing up

Right click 'My Computer' and go to drive management. See if its there, might just need to be formatted.

Newtown90

Where would it show up here?

Its not under disk management anyways!

Screen shot:

http://s927.photobucket.com/albums/ad112/glenviewjf/Screen%20Shot/?action=view&current=ScreenShot.png

As i initialize disk 2 (think thats it ?) get this message:

http://s927.photobucket.com/albums/ad112/glenviewjf/Screen Shot/?action=view&current=Capture1.png

Voodu Child

How are you powering the drive? USB only? Sometimes a drive will require more power than your USB port provides.

Does your enclosure come with a y-cable (for two USB ports) or separate PSU?

Newtown90

It comes with a Y cable... Have it plugged in to the two ports to power it!