I recently had a laptop hard drive failer. It has to be replaced. DELL told me that I could replace the hard with any notebook/laptop hard drive. I order one and when it came in, it would not connect.
The New drive has male pins to connect. The Old drive looks like a slot connect like the card that you slide into your mother board on a PC. Any suggestions on adaptors or how to order the correct hard drive type.
2006-12-04 06:07:21 · 4 answers · asked by today 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Just remove the "slot connector" looking adapter from your old hard drive and put it on the new hard drive.
Just pull it off firmly, and evenly. Real easy!
2006-12-04 06:18:14 · answer #1 · answered by yu.gota.go 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps the "slot connector" on the old hard drive can be removed and placed on the new one? I've dealt with lots of different hard drives and never seen one that didn't have male pins for the connectors.
2006-12-04 14:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I can tell, you are not going to be able to buy an adaptor for your hard drive. How old is your laptop? It sounds like it may be too old. You might try contacting DELL again.
2006-12-04 14:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by futmammologist 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is a pin guide/converter on your old HDD. take it off the pins on the old HDD an put it on your new HDD to install it to your laptop.
2006-12-04 14:14:54 · answer #4 · answered by T G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋