[ire]

I have a laptop that is having problems (its a friends computer, Gateway) and I'm 90% sure the hard drive is messed up. I pulled the drive out and was going to stick it into another laptop I have (HP) as a secondary drive to see if there is a problem; when I pulled the drive out it has pins, similar to a normal HD, but the drive in my laptop uses a card type connection. This got me thinking, I need to order a new drive for this computer, what connection types are available? Is the card style connection an HP only thing? I was looking around Newegg.com and other than size and speed I couldn't tell the difference between the drives.

 

[Quo Fan]

Hard drives are standardized. What I believe you have is a carrier that converts the connection. The carrier must be switched to the other hard drive. If you want to connect it as a secondary drive to your laptop, I don't think that is going to happen. Generally, laptops have space for only one hard drive.

 

[ire]

Hard drives are standardized. What I believe you have is a carrier that converts the connection. The carrier must be switched to the other hard drive. If you want to connect it as a secondary drive to your laptop, I don't think that is going to happen. Generally, laptops have space for only one hard drive.

My old laptop had room for two, but only one carrier :huh: Thanks for the info, I'll get my HD ordered.

 

[PatBranch]

You could get an enclosure and connect it with firewire/usb.