On 9/27/2016 3:13 PM, micky wrote:
A friend wanted to recover files from an old 2 1/2" HDD so I went over
with my USB to SATA/IDE gizmo. I'd used another version of this for 3
1/2" drives, and a 2 1/2 IDE drive, but I had looked at this one and it
has a little SATA connector on it.

The power connector fit, but when it was plugged in the USB/data
connector had no room. So maybe there is power in the data connector
too. But even when the power connector was out, it still didn't fit.

In a rare example of flauning my wealth, I had bought two makes of this
device, but the other one has an identical connector!!!


The first one doesn't even have a brandname, only a model, ADA-2020 and
the second one is Inland

All of these in the first two rows except the one with the red plug are
like mine:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ADA-...1680&bi h=834
The relevant connector is seen in the top left one, the black thing at
the top middle of the blue part.
https://www.google.com/search?q&tbm=...4Q9C8ICQ&dpr=1
Here's a bigger pictu
https://www.amazon.com/GEARXS-COM-AD...ct_top?ie=UTF8

The relevant part looks the same on the other one. Here is the other
one though the picture is not worth looking at:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/3...USB_20_adapter

Sounds like your friend has a mini or micro sata hard drive. See if a
Google search for "mini sata adapter usb" (minus the quotes) and see if
one of those SATA to USB cables does what you want.

Yes this kind of adapter does supply the power directly from the USB
port for the smaller (micro) SATA internal drives.