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> JM wrote:
>> I'm not sure what the part is called, but it's the part that fits onto the
>> laptop hard drive pins to adapt the hard drive to the motherboard. I know
>> they come in many different designs, and I suspect they are in large part
>> proprietary. I desperately need one for an Averatec 5110P.
> They are proprietary, unfortunately.

Ummm... not usually. The *vast* majority of 2.5" hard drives use the same
connector, and even with 1.8" hard drives most will be one of 2.

>> Can someone suggest a source? Averatec has not been of help to this point.

Is it a 2.5" hard drive? If so:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812119020