To Ray Parrish
Thanks for the advice.  I took apart two other old laptops I had lying 
around but they had different connections on the hard drive.  They had two 
sets of male pins instead of the one row of female.  I think I need some 
kind of adapter that will attach to the drive and end in a USB connector. 
Ever heard of such a thing?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Parrish" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive


> Hello,
>
> The four pin male connector is for the power connector from your power 
> supply. The 22 pin connector is for the data cable that attaches the drive 
> to the motherboard. You could try installing it in another computer as a 
> slave drive and read the things off of it you need.
>
> You would have to set the jumpers on the drive to slave to install it as a 
> second drive in a system.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
> Steve Howe wrote:
>> I had an HP laptop computer whose mother board died and I have removed 
>> the hard drive and am trying to figure out how to read it.  I have a 
>> couple of things I would like to recover.  It is a Hitachi, Model 
>> #HTS428060F9AT00.  The attaching end has 22 female pin openings and a 4 
>> pin male device on the side.  Do I have a chance in Hell?
>>
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