Laptop HD Connection

[lightshow]

I just had a laptop hard drive die on me, so I was going to take it out and connect it up to an external usb case.

I noticed that it would not connect to the standard ide ribbon cable.

Where can I find an adapter for it?

I'm not sure what keywords to google for.

[lynx]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=28724&C=Froogle&U=28724&T=24228

[Duffman]

Umm if its dead, why are you hooking it up to an externeal enclosure.

[lightshow]

Sorry for the late response. It is on the verge of being dead. It will boot in the laptop once every six times.

I was going to save the mydocuments folder.

[Duffman]

oh, makes sense, but also before you trash it, I was having those problems too with a hard drive, and after defragging, scanning again and again, I actually found no problems, so I zeroed the drive completley, not the first and last million sectors, then entire drive to 0's and its working perfectly now, and btw thanks clocky all is well.