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Re: [hard drive] Laptop Sata Hard Drive Adapter

Drive Bay in Laptop. When the drive is seated it connects straight in.

With regular connector (external ESATA/USB encloure combo connector)

Top of Drive.

Take a close look at the drive's connector, and see if that's actually a removable adapter that provides the connection interface between the drive itself and the Laptop...

(Edit): The diagram shown on the drive's label indicates that it indeed uses a Standard SATA Interface...

-Tursiops_G.
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The adapter Ken Peterson pointed out is a bit more of a universal solution, I actually have one and it comes in handy, it would be the better choice to have around.

And as Tursiops_G said, most laptops have a small 'adapter' on the drives, it should just pull out and have the standard SATA connections on the drive.

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Yeah, like tursiops said - that's just an adapter on the SATA drive to make it fit the laptop. It's a standard SATA drive. Which is sweet, because you can just throw it into your desktop as a 2nd drive if it has SATA ports on it. Standard power / data connectors, unlike the IDE laptop drives.

You just need to remove the adapter by pulling evenly / gently away from the drive. Double check the edges first, sometimes HP screws them down.