What connection is a laptop hard drive called?

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Is it IBM micro drive or is there some such other name.

Basically I have a laptop than is non bootable at the moment (boot files only corrupt) and was thinking the best way to get into it would be to stick it in a card reader and USB it to my desktop PC.
However I don't want to buy a card reader with the wrong sort of interface on it.

Cheers

Andy

(will talk about other ways of getting at the data in another thread)
 
Ok what about some such gadget that can take a laptop HDD
Are they industry standard connections like a IDE or SATA would be on a normal PC
What would it be called?
 
It'll either be IDE or SATA. If it's SATA then the connectors are identical to SATA 3.5" HDDs so you can plug it straight into a desktop box or use an eSATA enclosure. If it's IDE it'll have two long rows of pins on the back edge of the drive, this is a combined power and data connector so you'll either need an adapter to break out the power and give you a normal IDE port to let you run it internally or a 2.5" IDE to USB caddy.

In some machines the drive may be within a caddy with a different pinout but you'll be able to get the disk out of that without much difficulty if necessary.
 
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That should be a bog standard IDE drive, the Foxconn (sp?) bit should be removeable to expose the standard interface.
 
LOL it comes off, excellent, didn't realise.
That looks much more like an interface I recognise. :D


Cheers


Andy
 
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