Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations Chris Miller on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Connect Laptop HD to Desktop PC?
- Thread starter jsalz
- Start date
mudskipper
Technical User
If your laptop drive is just a standard PCMCIA hard drive, then you certainly can do it.
You can buy an adapter (if you don't already have one) that will allow you to hook it up.
Your standard laptop hard drives get their power from the ribbon cable (essentially), so this adapter will allow you to plug in your standard IDE cable as well as power from your power supply. As a result, be very careful that you get pin one on the correct side--otherwise power will flow through to the wrong connection (that means smoke!).
As for master/slave, I usually just hook it up on it's own ribbon so that I don't have to fuss with it, though. In theory, though, your laptop hard drive is already set for master (or single)--so you can try to chain it up with a slave CDROM drive if you like. Worst that it can do is not work!!
I hope that this helps! Mudskipper
___________________________________________________________________________________
Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
You can buy an adapter (if you don't already have one) that will allow you to hook it up.
Your standard laptop hard drives get their power from the ribbon cable (essentially), so this adapter will allow you to plug in your standard IDE cable as well as power from your power supply. As a result, be very careful that you get pin one on the correct side--otherwise power will flow through to the wrong connection (that means smoke!).
As for master/slave, I usually just hook it up on it's own ribbon so that I don't have to fuss with it, though. In theory, though, your laptop hard drive is already set for master (or single)--so you can try to chain it up with a slave CDROM drive if you like. Worst that it can do is not work!!
I hope that this helps! Mudskipper
___________________________________________________________________________________
Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
- Status