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Hard Drive on a Compaq Presario 1920 laptop...
Are the third party 2.5 inch hard drives that I've found on the internet that say they are suitable replacements for the 6.4 GB hard drive that died in my 1920 laptop telling me the truth? Looking in old, dead laptops, I've found, gone through, and rejected three or four spare 2.5 inch hard drives already. Each of them had a different connector, and I fear that the $79 20-40 GB hard drives I've found from searching the net will have a different connector on them than the 6.4 GB IBM Travelstar hard drive that came in my Presario 1920. -- bill evans Hartselle, AL Freeman Dyson: "It's best not to limit our thinking. We can always air-condition the Earth." |
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"Bill Evans" wrote in message ... Are the third party 2.5 inch hard drives that I've found on the internet that say they are suitable replacements for the 6.4 GB hard drive that died in my 1920 laptop telling me the truth? Looking in old, dead laptops, I've found, gone through, and rejected three or four spare 2.5 inch hard drives already. Each of them had a different connector, and I fear that the $79 20-40 GB hard drives I've found from searching the net will have a different connector on them than the 6.4 GB IBM Travelstar hard drive that came in my Presario 1920. -- bill evans Hartselle, AL Did you take the original drive out of caddy to see what the connector looked like? Most 2.5 inch hard drives use a 44-pin connector. Some drives are installed upside down in the caddy and some are installed right side up. Do not confuse the jumper pins for the drive interface connector pins. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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"Earl F. Parrish" wrote in message
news:2ISke.2209$5T2.764@trnddc01... "Bill Evans" wrote in message ... Are the third party 2.5 inch hard drives that I've found on the internet that say they are suitable replacements for the 6.4 GB hard drive that died in my 1920 laptop telling me the truth? Looking in old, dead laptops, I've found, gone through, and rejected three or four spare 2.5 inch hard drives already. Each of them had a different connector, and I fear that the $79 20-40 GB hard drives I've found from searching the net will have a different connector on them than the 6.4 GB IBM Travelstar hard drive that came in my Presario 1920. Did you take the original drive out of caddy to see what the connector looked like? No. I had noticed the IBM Travelstar drive was ensheathed in a dark plastic piece of whatever the material Presario 1920 laptops are made out of. Rails on each side to form a precision join for the connector to the laptop when slid into place. Most 2.5 inch hard drives use a 44-pin connector. I had noticed the common 44 pins arranged in two rows on all the other hard drives I was looking at, but what confused me was the caddy you're bringing to my attention. It turned the array of 44 pins into an edge connector. Or is that another, separate piece of plastic beneath the caddy that I'm seeing? Whatever it is, it mates with those 44 pins on one side, and has a female edge connector on the other that looks roughly like one of the sockets where you would plug in an old ISA card. Some drives are installed upside down in the caddy and some are installed right side up. Do not confuse the jumper pins for the drive interface connector pins. Not going to happen, I speak master/slave/cable select. I'd just never owned a laptop before, and had one given to me that promptly had it's hard drive die. This Compaq Presario 1920 is so old it's almost not worth saving, but I could use it to test my wifi network installs if I can get it to boot again with a new Winchester rif^H^Hdrive. -- bill evans Hartselle, AL Freeman Dyson: "It's best not to limit our thinking. We can always air-condition the Earth." |
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"Bill Evans" wrote in message ... "Earl F. Parrish" wrote in message news:2ISke.2209$5T2.764@trnddc01... Most 2.5 inch hard drives use a 44-pin connector. I had noticed the common 44 pins arranged in two rows on all the other hard drives I was looking at, but what confused me was the caddy you're bringing to my attention. It turned the array of 44 pins into an edge connector. Or is that another, separate piece of plastic beneath the caddy that I'm seeing? Whatever it is, it mates with those 44 pins on one side, and has a female edge connector on the other that looks roughly like one of the sockets where you would plug in an old ISA card. Alright, the caddy has an adapter underneath it that converts the array of 44 male pins into a female edge connector with 44 contact points. I assume you're telling me most all 2.5 inch hard drives have that array of 44 male pins that gets converted by various different methods into something that'll snap into the laptop in question? No wonder I've avoided fixing old notebooks over the years..... -- bill evans Hartselle, AL Freeman Dyson: "It's best not to limit our thinking. We can always air-condition the Earth." |
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"Bill Evans" wrote in message ... "Bill Evans" wrote in message ... "Earl F. Parrish" wrote in message news:2ISke.2209$5T2.764@trnddc01... Most 2.5 inch hard drives use a 44-pin connector. I had noticed the common 44 pins arranged in two rows on all the other hard drives I was looking at, but what confused me was the caddy you're bringing to my attention. It turned the array of 44 pins into an edge connector. Or is that another, separate piece of plastic beneath the caddy that I'm seeing? Whatever it is, it mates with those 44 pins on one side, and has a female edge connector on the other that looks roughly like one of the sockets where you would plug in an old ISA card. Alright, the caddy has an adapter underneath it that converts the array of 44 male pins into a female edge connector with 44 contact points. I assume you're telling me most all 2.5 inch hard drives have that array of 44 male pins that gets converted by various different methods into something that'll snap into the laptop in question? No wonder I've avoided fixing old notebooks over the years..... Some laptops use caddies simply to hold the drives in place and do not have a gender reverser as many Compaq laptops do. I just put a larger drive in an Armada 3500 which had an aluminum caddy with a cloth pull strap which was glued to the drive. It had Torx screws holding the drive to the caddy. I bought an external laptop hard drive case hoping to use the included software to mirror my old drive to the new drive. Unfortunately, neither my laptop nor my desktop computer would recognize the new drive except momentarily. I had to install the blank drive in the laptop and restore a drive image I had made earlier. Because certain files were in use when I ran the backup, I had to reinstall my firewall and antivirus software from new downloads. I did it from my desktop computer which was protected and copied the files over my workgroup network to the laptop. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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Modern 2.5" drives are generic. Same form factor, screw holes, and 44 pins in
the same place, no matter which brand. Notebook manufacturers take the generic drives and customize them by adding drive caddies, mounting brackets, and special drive adapters. The latter are intended to prevent wear and tear on the 44 pins from repeated insertion and removal of drives. The drive adapters usually remove easily with a gentle tug or a nudge from a small screwdriver. .... Ben Myers On , "Bill Evans" wrote: NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:08:51 MST Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:09:07 -0500 Xref: Hurricane-Charley alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq:5874 X-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 05:08:51 MST (be05.lga) "Bill Evans" wrote in message ... "Earl F. Parrish" wrote in message news:2ISke.2209$5T2.764@trnddc01... Most 2.5 inch hard drives use a 44-pin connector. I had noticed the common 44 pins arranged in two rows on all the other hard drives I was looking at, but what confused me was the caddy you're bringing to my attention. It turned the array of 44 pins into an edge connector. Or is that another, separate piece of plastic beneath the caddy that I'm seeing? Whatever it is, it mates with those 44 pins on one side, and has a female edge connector on the other that looks roughly like one of the sockets where you would plug in an old ISA card. Alright, the caddy has an adapter underneath it that converts the array of 44 male pins into a female edge connector with 44 contact points. I assume you're telling me most all 2.5 inch hard drives have that array of 44 male pins that gets converted by various different methods into something that'll snap into the laptop in question? No wonder I've avoided fixing old notebooks over the years..... -- bill evans Hartselle, AL Freeman Dyson: "It's best not to limit our thinking. We can always air-condition the Earth." |
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