22pin ide to USB adapter laptop HD

[Ninety]

So I've been trying to get the data off this hard drive for sometime. And I just can't seem to order the right adaptor.

It's a hard drive out of an old Dell laptop. On the drive it says enhanced ide . It has 22 contacts. Flat blade , no gap or break similar to a Nintendo cartridge. Or PCi card.

Every adapter I've tried to order and hard drive case have been wrong. Ide , sata, etc.. not the one I need.

Hopefully someone can find one for me and post a link.. Amazon preferred but I'll buy it from just about anywhere

Thx in advance.

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[.sam.]

22 contacts. Flat blade , no gap or break similar to a Nintendo cartridge.

See if you can pull that flat blade piece off. If it does, there should be 22 pins under there and hopefully one of the IDE you bought already will work.

[Ninety]

See if you can pull that flat blade piece off. If it does, there should be 22 pins under there and hopefully one of the IDE you bought already will work.

LMAO.

Thank you.

I've been at this for over a year. Off and on

Lol thx bud.

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[Darryl Licht]

So I've been trying to get the data off this hard drive for sometime. And I just can't seem to order the right adaptor.

It's a hard drive out of an old Dell laptop. On the drive it says enhanced ide . It has 22 contacts. Flat blade , no gap or break similar to a Nintendo cartridge. Or PCi card.

Every adapter I've tried to order and hard drive case have been wrong. Ide , sata, etc.. not the one I need.

Hopefully someone can find one for me and post a link.. Amazon preferred but I'll buy it from just about anywhere

Thx in advance.

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You may need an IDE 2.5" (laptop hdd) to IDE 3.5" (desktop hdd) adapter to then be able to use your IDE/SATA/USB adapter. Been a long time since I needed one and I may have one in my old parts bin.

... And you'll need a PSU with the proper adapter for that old ide laptop hdd.

[dmesloh]

http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817155701 I've used these.

[Ninety]

So I have two HD s ..

.sam. was correct that all I had to do was pull of the flat blade adaptor

One HD I CA read thru windows.. no problem , the other gave me the blue screen of death when I plugged it in.

So I booted into Linux and tried to read it that way.. I was unable to mount the drive or explore ita contents. I believe the drive to be dead.

The whole reason I've been trying to get into it, is it contained thousands of my copied cds ,music.

Not looking good.

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[Darryl Licht]

So I have two HD s ..

.sam. was correct that all I had to do was pull of the flat blade adaptor

One HD I CA read thru windows.. no problem , the other gave me the blue screen of death when I plugged it in.

So I booted into Linux and tried to read it that way.. I was unable to mount the drive or explore ita contents. I believe the drive to be dead.

The whole reason I've been trying to get into it, is it contained thousands of my copied cds ,music.

Not looking good.

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Some Q's and thoughts:

What brand is the HDD you cannot read?

There may be vendor software to try a repair.

Do you know what file system was used originally?

See if you can get your hands on a copy of Spinrite from Gibson Research... it can fix many HDD errors of this type!

[Ninety]

Some Q's and thoughts:

What brand is the HDD you cannot read?

There may be vendor software to try a repair.

Do you know what file system was used originally?

See if you can get your hands on a copy of Spinrite from Gibson Research... it can fix many HDD errors of this type!

It's a Hitachi
DK23EB-04

Iwill look into that software and search the vendor

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[Darryl Licht]

It's a Hitachi
DK23EB-04

Iwill look into that software and search the vendor

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Western Digital bought Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) about four years ago.

Here are the utilities for it:

https://www.hgst.com/support/hard-drive-support/downloads

Did the drive even spin up when you connected it? Did it sound normal or click click click???


AND ARE YOU SURE ITS A DK23EB-04 and not a DK23EB-40???? it is a 40GB HDD right???

[Ninety]

Western Digital bought Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) about four years ago.

Here are the utilities for it:

https://www.hgst.com/support/hard-drive-support/downloads

Did the drive even spin up when you connected it? Did it sound normal or click click click???

I didn't hear either drive spin up. I can read the contents of the wd drive but the Hitachi I can only see volume size. In Linux.

In windows it crashed the machine. Not sure if it's because the drive is bad or there's a virus..

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[Darryl Licht]

I didn't hear either drive spin up. I can read the contents of the wd drive but the Hitachi I can only see volume size. In Linux.

In windows it crashed the machine. Not sure if it's because the drive is bad or there's a virus..

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Are both HDDs 2.5" laptop format???

What power supply and connection did you use?

Can you post a pic of the drive connected to the adapter and PSU?

[Ninety]

Are both HDDs 2.5" laptop format???

What power supply and connection did you use?

Can you post a pic of the drive connected to the adapter and PSU?

I'm just powering it up via USB adaptor

Similar to this
Caxico New USB 2.0 to IDE SATA S-ATA/2.5/3.5 Adapter Cable (Adapter Cable) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0132JP1D6..._GqbiybK0V5Z8J

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And yes both are 2.5" laptop hds

[Darryl Licht]

Both drives (WD and HGST) are 2.5"???

IDE usually requires a PSU to power up, I know that's the case for 3.5". Been a long time since I had to do this with a 44pin IDE 2.5" HDD... and I'm getting old so some of my internal HDD may be corrupted! LOL!

You really should have heard them spin up when powered up! When connected did it feel like a gyro when held in your hand and powered up?

[Ninety]

Yes it spools up, unable to mount in Linux

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http://imgur.com/vD2xLrE

[Darryl Licht]

Yes it spools up, unable to mount in Linux

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http://imgur.com/vD2xLrE

OK... needed to make sure as earlier you said you didn't hear it spin up. SO good it is powering up!

Have you tried a csel or slave jumper (according to the image on your HDD sticker?) on those remaining 4 pins? Might need that for OS to recognize.

Here is pinout for IDE 44: