IDE help

[cyfa2809]

so my laptop died the other month, fried motherboard i suspect. i think the hdd will still be ok so i was looking into getting an ide to usb lead so i can plug it into this laptop and retrieve data from it. now, i can find the leads to buy but am unsure if i need a power lead and from looking at them, if i did need a power lead, where does it connect to?!
anyone help?

 

[FluffyChicken]

Buy a 2.5" harddrive case of ebay and it'll all be there.
http://computers.shop.ebay.co.uk/Hard-D ... 86.c0.m359

cheap and do the job. look for one with large ends and not the mini ends. I've had a few 'mini' ends and they have all damaged easy at the mini usb socket.


No you shouldn't need a power lead, it'll get the power form the USB setup.
But get a case and not just the leads. You then gain portable storage and protection for the old drive to keep things on for backup.

 

[zigzag]

So assuming this is a 2.5" IDE hard drive with 44 male pins - ie. Parallel ATA. It's not a Serial ATA drive with a much smaller connector.

If so, there is no separate power connector - it has 4 extra pins in the connector for (44 pins vs 40 pin for 'normal' IDE).

The extra 4 pins are +12v, +5v and a couple of grounds. However, USB only provides +5v, so whatever you are going to use must also get a 12v signal from somewhere.

Something like this looks like it will do the trick:

http://bestofferbuy.com/R-Driver-II-USB ... aign=gbase

You can see it comes with a little PSU.

 

[mattbrown]

ive used a laptop hdd to usb hdd, had no problems, very easy, just plug it in the case, then attache to pc/lappy via usb port and voilà

 

[FluffyChicken]

so whatever you are going to use must also get a 12v signal from somewhere..

Not true, laptop drive will run of the 5V. Though some very old laptop/desktop USB's could not provide the current they need. But normally shouldn't be a problem and they still tend to come with two 'connectors' for the computer side of things in case it needs a greater current.

 

[mikeekim89]

Umm, my laptop ran a 2.5 sata.. go a hard drive case, and it runs great off the USB

 

[cyfa2809]

chicken i think i will go with that! cheers buddy!
zigzag - thats what i was thinking of but it seems overkill for a hard drive :roll:

cheers guys