installing a laptop hard drive

Zaphan58 · 22 Mar 2007 at 11:27

I just received a new laptop hard drive although I am not completely sure I bought the right one!

The old one I took out looks a little different on the connection side. The old one has sort of wide flat pins whilst the new hard drive I just received looks just like a regular IDE?

It's a dell laptop by the way can anyone clear this up? Do I need some sort of adapter? :confused:

Zaphan58 · 22 Mar 2007 at 11:32

Actually after looking at one in auction I'm thinking the end must come off the old drive and slip on the new one. Bit of a weird way of doing it rather than dell just using a standard connection.

Drazic · 22 Mar 2007 at 18:23

Yeah all Dell's have that thing on them...blasted things.

Just pop the old off and that one on.

HD upgrade or dead HD?

glitch · 22 Mar 2007 at 19:20

Zaphan58 said:
Actually after looking at one in auction I'm thinking the end must come off the old drive and slip on the new one. Bit of a weird way of doing it rather than dell just using a standard connection.

It's a standard across all the Latitude range and probably the entire Dell laptop range. Just be careful when taking the cover off the old and putting it on the new drive as it's very easy to bend the pins!