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December 25th 05, 06:29 AM
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Drive connector in Compaq Presario Laptop?
Hi,
My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside the bottom of the laptop. I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that "right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins" (i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e., so I can't use the 7K100 at all)? I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help  ...Thanks, Jim 
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December 25th 05, 07:32 AM
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Drive connector in Compaq Presario Laptop?
ohaya wrote: Hi, My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside the bottom of the laptop. I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that "right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins" (i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e., so I can't use the 7K100 at all)? I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help ...Thanks, Jim Hi, Just for the record, I've figured things out. The "right-angle connector" that I mentioned in my original post is actually an adapter that you can pull off of the "normal" drive connector pins. I've done that, and now have the new 80GB Hitachi drive installed in the laptop! Jim
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