3.5" to 2.5" male IDE Adapter ?
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From: - Bobb - on 14 Dec 2009 07:21 "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4b2603d5$0$2474$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... > JD wrote: >> - Bobb - wrote: <snipped> >> >> Ahh I see >> You want this then IDE to 2.5 Inch drive adapter cable. >> >> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Euronetwork-drive-laptop-adaptor-cable/dp/B000BB0DDC/ref=pd_sim_ce_1) >> JD > > my mistake, this is not what you want, I saw the pic and assumed it was > for connecting 3.5" HDD to laptop but its just another cable for putting > laptop drive in a PC. > > Think your only option is to use a US HDD Caddy. > > JD That would work as a secondary drive but laptop has no option to boot from USB - not sure can install XP to external device either - at boot time it wouldn't have USB loaded. OK - well, thanks for trying.
From: JD on 14 Dec 2009 13:49 - Bobb - wrote: > "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message > news:4b2603d5$0$2474$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... >> JD wrote: >>> - Bobb - wrote: > <snipped> >>> Ahh I see >>> You want this then IDE to 2.5 Inch drive adapter cable. >>> >>> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Euronetwork-drive-laptop-adaptor-cable/dp/B000BB0DDC/ref=pd_sim_ce_1) >>> JD >> my mistake, this is not what you want, I saw the pic and assumed it was >> for connecting 3.5" HDD to laptop but its just another cable for putting >> laptop drive in a PC. >> >> Think your only option is to use a US HDD Caddy. >> >> JD > > That would work as a secondary drive but laptop has no option to boot from > USB - not sure can install XP to external device either - at boot time it > wouldn't have USB loaded. > OK - well, thanks for trying. > > > While Reinstalling an XP system I noticed it detected a usb key I had plugged in, so it should find a USB HDD and to solve the laptop not booting from USB you could use a Boot manager like say GRUB to boot to the USB HDD from ether a floppy or CD. JD
From: Baron on 14 Dec 2009 14:57 - Bobb - Inscribed thus: > Nephew's PC developed a bad connection where power brick goes into > Gateway laptop and when he plugged it in, he got MBR error so my phone > rang. I put his drive in my desktop and couldn't see the drive. I put > back in his PC and I could boot XP CD to recovery console. I could see > drive, but when I tried fixboot / fdisk/mbr / diags - the HDD is fried > - most blocks are "bad blocks" when I try to format. I thought I try > an old drive, but then realized that I gave away the old (small) IDE > laptop drives that I had, so before buying a new laptop drive, I'd > like to make sure that the rest of PC is OK. > > Gateway disk connector is female 2.5 " IDE. I have plenty of 3.5 inch > IDE drives and figured maybe I could use one of them to install / > check out his > PC. I checked and have various 3.5" adapters but not a male 2.5 to > 3.5" adapter. Anyone know where I can get one? Google only got me 2.5 > to 3.5 inch > adapters and none with a male 2.5" end. Even a 2.5 inch male to male > connector would work > > Before you say " why would you want to hook up a big drive as a > primary laptop drive ?" It would be just to hook it up, do an XP > install and run it a while before spending $75 on a laptop drive only > to find out it won't > work. (He bought it used and has no CD. Would my full copy of XP > install on his Gateway if I use his license? If not - then no need for > new drive either.) Stick a Linux live CD in the drive and boot from that. If it all works as expected then you just need a new HDD. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: Baron on 14 Dec 2009 15:04 JD Inscribed thus: > - Bobb - wrote: >> "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message >> news:4b2603d5$0$2474$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk... >>> JD wrote: >>>> - Bobb - wrote: >> <snipped> >>>> Ahh I see >>>> You want this then IDE to 2.5 Inch drive adapter cable. >>>> >>>> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Euronetwork-drive-laptop-adaptor-cable/dp/B000BB0DDC/ref=pd_sim_ce_1) >>>> JD >>> my mistake, this is not what you want, I saw the pic and assumed it >>> was for connecting 3.5" HDD to laptop but its just another cable for >>> putting laptop drive in a PC. >>> >>> Think your only option is to use a US HDD Caddy. >>> >>> JD >> >> That would work as a secondary drive but laptop has no option to boot >> from >> USB - not sure can install XP to external device either - at boot >> time it wouldn't have USB loaded. See below. >> OK - well, thanks for trying. >> >> >> > > While Reinstalling an XP system I noticed it detected a usb key I had > plugged in, so it should find a USB HDD and to solve the laptop not > booting from USB you could use a Boot manager like say GRUB to boot to > the USB HDD from ether a floppy or CD. > > JD Not so ! If the BIOS on the machine can use USB to boot it isn't a problem. XP will look at and enumerate all devices it finds on instalation. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: JD on 14 Dec 2009 15:41
Baron wrote: > > Not so ! If the BIOS on the machine can use USB to boot it isn't a > problem. XP will look at and enumerate all devices it finds on > instalation. > I'm not sure what you mean here, I did a little experiment, using a mobo that does not have the boot from USB or boot from other devices option: using XP SP2 I can see and install to an external hard drive using Plop boot manager I can see and boot from a USB device (it ignores the BIOS) For PLOP download this: http://download.plop.at/files/bootmngr/plpbt-5.0.5.zip unzip and burn the plpbt.iso Insert the CD and select boot from USB. hope that helps JD |