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#1 saruman354

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Ok, so I stumbled upon an old laptop hard drive and wanted to hook it up and see what was on it. However, I have NO idea what cable to use. Here's a pic (sorry for the poor picture quality, it was taken on my phone):

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#2 ionusX

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thatd be an IDE ribbon cable

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#3 danjammer69

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Holy crap!? Are you really wearing an anti-static bracelet in that picture?

Its a great idea to ground yourself but I thought gamers were too cool to use those ;)

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#4 saruman354

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thatd be an IDE ribbon cable
ionusX

Really? I tried using one and it didn't fit :\

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#5 ionusX

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[QUOTE="ionusX"]
thatd be an IDE ribbon cable
saruman354

Really? I tried using one and it didn't fit :\

perhaps its a more proprietary variant but thats def ide ribbon

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#6 metacritical

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you be trying to use a floppy drive cable instead of a hard drive cable, floppy cables are smaller. also, you'll notice there's a square filled in in the middle, make sure you have he cable the right way round to join up with the missing pin on the motherboard/drive.

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#7 KyleGates

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If its a LAPTOP drive, could be a more proprietary cable.

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#8 metacritical

Member since 2008 • 2537 Posts

as it's a laptop hard drive, you'll need a cable like this to plug it into your pc: http://www.maplin.co.uk/ide-to-2.5-laptop-ide-cable-28724

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#9 DM613

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I have to admit it's quite annoying when 3 of those are in your face. Kinda hard to aim when your screen is full of blinking red dots. And in a dark map like that, you're a pretty easy target for snipers when your head is covered with those

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#10 markop2003