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Old 01-19-2007, 10:00 PM
Richard Cole
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Laptop IDE cable

Hi

I want to change the drive in my Acer Aspire 3610 from 40Gb to 80Gb so I
can install Vista (Got the DVD and key from MSDN). However looking on the
web there are 40 pin and 44 pin drives.

I assume that the laptop required a 44 pin drive (with the extra 4 pins
being the power supply).

Can someone confirm or refute this or will I have to open it up in advance
and take a look?

Thanks

Richard
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Re: Laptop IDE cable

ALL laptop IDE (aka PATA, EIDE) drives are the same and have a 44-pin
connector.

However, all laptops currently being made, and most made in the past two
years, don't use IDE drives, they use SATA drives, which are totally
different.


Richard Cole wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to change the drive in my Acer Aspire 3610 from 40Gb to 80Gb so I
> can install Vista (Got the DVD and key from MSDN). However looking on the
> web there are 40 pin and 44 pin drives.
>
> I assume that the laptop required a 44 pin drive (with the extra 4 pins
> being the power supply).
>
> Can someone confirm or refute this or will I have to open it up in advance
> and take a look?
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
> Web pages: http://www.caravanningnow.co.uk/ for caravanning,
> http://www.rcole.org/ for my personal web site and
> http://www.homeindorset.co.uk because I love the email address.

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Old 01-19-2007, 10:00 PM
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Re: Laptop IDE cable

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:01:09 -0500, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

>ALL laptop IDE (aka PATA, EIDE) drives are the same and have a 44-pin
>connector.
>
>However, all laptops currently being made, and most made in the past two
>years, don't use IDE drives, they use SATA drives, which are totally
>different.

Barry

Thanks for your reply.

According to the manual, this is ATA-6 (ATA/100).

I guess I'll have to open it up before I buy and count :-(

Richard
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Old 01-19-2007, 10:01 PM
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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:456ca399$0$13681$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> ALL laptop IDE (aka PATA, EIDE) drives are the same and have a 44-pin
> connector.


That is not correct. 1.8-inch drives, used in many ultralight models, are
all PATA, and they have at least 4 different types of connectors.

> However, all laptops currently being made, and most made in the past two
> years, don't use IDE drives, they use SATA drives, which are totally
> different.


Again not correct. Dell Latitude, Toshiba Portege, VAIO TX, and Fujitsu P
are just some that still use PATA drives.

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Old 01-19-2007, 10:01 PM
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Re: Laptop IDE cable

I was presuming a 2.5" drive ... which as far as I know all full size
laptops still use. Agreed, I didn't state that and I should have.

I have not seen an IDE drive (again, talking about 2.5" drives only) in
a laptop made in about the past two years, including the Dell models
(only two models) or the Toshiba models (lots, but all Satellites and
Tecras) that I have worked on. I have not worked on any Sony or Fujitsu
models in the past 2 years.


Johnnie Leung wrote:
>
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:456ca399$0$13681$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> ALL laptop IDE (aka PATA, EIDE) drives are the same and have a 44-pin
>> connector.

>
> That is not correct. 1.8-inch drives, used in many ultralight models,
> are all PATA, and they have at least 4 different types of connectors.
>
>> However, all laptops currently being made, and most made in the past
>> two years, don't use IDE drives, they use SATA drives, which are
>> totally different.

>
> Again not correct. Dell Latitude, Toshiba Portege, VAIO TX, and Fujitsu
> P are just some that still use PATA drives.
>

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