SATA drives on Dell Inspiron 1720

[Admiral Huddy]

I'm a bit puzzled.. I have removed a failed 160GB SATA hard drive from the said laptop but it's power/interface connector look a bit strange and don't look like the normal "L" pins.

These sort of snap downwards..

Are all laptop SATA hard drives standard?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I'm wondering if the picture of the SATA 2.5 drive shown here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-015-FJ&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=896

Is actually a 2.5 SATA drive?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

You are right.. Damn!

.. and I've just found a guide too...

Cheers