"Mike Redrobe" wrote in news:7pP6d.167132$hZ3.13125
@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

John Bokma wrote:

My laptop harddisk died (2G in an Acer Extensa 367T), and a
replacement seems to be quite expensive.

Someone hinted that there is a way to connect a CF card using a
CF-IDE converter.

Yes, they are available and quite cheap.
All flash cards have a limited write cycles, so don't put a swap file
on it.

That was what I thought, until I saw ones sold with "life time
warranty". Hmmm... probably with somewhere a note that it doesn't
include the write cycle limit.

Also, I understand that there are actual harddisks in a CF card. (I
recall a story of someone hacking open a recent MP3 player in order to
put the 5G harddisk-as-CF inside his digital camera.

I wonder if there is a similar converter that makes it possible to
connect an USB 2.0 key drive to an 2.5" IDE connection inside my
laptop.

No.

I think USB 2 is more useful to me, since I can connect the
"harddisk"
to my other computer and transfer files easily.

Use a usb CF card reader in your other pc.

Thanks!

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