There are adapters that will allow you to use a laptop hard
drive (2.5 inch) with a desktop (3.5 inch form factor disk) computer.

The prices vary. The are usually around $10-$20. I bought one at
Fry's Electronics earlier this year.

At 10:31 AM 7/24/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I have 16 Seagate 200meg and 5 Western Digital 540meg hard drives.
>These were from laptops that I upgraded to larger drives.
>I was wondering if there is anything available that will allow me to use
>these as an external backup unit or use them in a desktop that has a
>smaller hard drive.  I also would like to be able to backup other users
>hard drive across a network.
>
>I just can't bring myself to just tossing them in the trash.  There has to be
>some use for them.
>
>Chuck Cooley
>
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