I have a tiny adapter that both converts the power and the data connections.
Visually, it appears the power is 5 volt instead of the desktop 12 volt, so
it just cross connects two of the standard 4 power wires, substituting
yellow for red? (do i have that right?) The data is a ribbon to ribbon cable
adapter.  It works fine for us. We use it to backup and erase drives before
returning them under warranty.  I don't know where we obtained it.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:04 AM

Anyone know if it's possible to connect a laptop hard drive to a desktop PC?

I have a possibly faulty 2.5" drive that I'd like to try and connect to
another system to see if it's really the drive that's the problem, or
whether there's some other factor.

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