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Fri 20 Apr, 2007 03:22 pm
i have a toshiba satellite m65-s809 laptop. and the motherboard is dead. so i called best buy's geek squad, that guy told me directly that it is just not worth it to repair it. and i can just use an enclosure to get to the files on my laptop.
my question is now that there are so many different types of enclosures out there, which one should i buy? will it actually work on the toshiba notebook hard drive which already has windows xp installed on it.
this internal hard drive has 22 parallel pins and 4 extra pins. and i have an enclosure that only has 20 pins. what is the difference anyway?
Notebook hard drives are smaller than the ones you find in desktop computers. Notebook hard drives are usually 2.5" (two and a half inches) wide, whereas desktop gard drives are usually 3.5" or 5.25" wide.
Notebook IDE connectors have two rows of 22 pins making 44 altogether.
The regular IDE connector on desktop hard drives has two rows of 20 pins, making 40 pins altogether, although the middle one on one row is often left blank to make it impossible to reverse the connector.
You want an enclosure meant for 2.5 inch notebook drives. It should work OK if you take care to connect the disk properly. Read the instructions. Once you have mounted the notebook hard drive in the enclosure and connected the power supply, you can just plug the USB plug into a computer and the notebook drive will be recognised as an external hard drive. You can copy over the files that you need and then format the disk and use it as a handy storage device.
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