I have a DELL Latitude D530 laptop that needs a new hard drive...so I called DELL gave them the laptop's service tag and they sent me a replacement hard drive that they assured is compatible. Anyway the Hard drive they sent me was a Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE.2 Hard drive. This drive's connector looked very different then the connector from the drive that I was replacing...at first I thought that the new drive had an additional connector on top of the main connector but I found that I could not remove the additional connector meaning that it wasn't really an addtional connector....am i correct to assume that the drive they sent me is NOT compatible with my DELL Laptop? I am attaching the images of both hard drives..the drive on the left is the one they sent me and the one on the right is the original drive that i wanted to replace...what do u think? Ia m puzzled!
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Did DELL send me the wrong hard drive? 4
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I think that the drive on the left, does have a port changer (what you called an additional connector)...
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see:
Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"
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Easy mistake..happened to me the first time I saw one of these. Just need carefully levering off and swapping over.
Whatch the orientation (which way it is fitted)
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Whatch the orientation (which way it is fitted)
Martin
On wings like angels whispers sweet
my heart it feels a broken beat
Touched soul and hurt lay wounded deep
Brown eyes are lost afar and sleep
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Yeah - it's correct. It's like a little adapter from the drives sata/power connectors to adapt to the laptop's style of connectors. It pushes on and off. Just try to pull it off and put it on gently. Pull/push evenly on both sides so you don't do any damage.
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