Thanks, Gary, that confirms about what I thought. With luck there is an adapter on the drive that he can transfer to a new drive.

Thanks...Steve

On 5/8/2011 3:37 PM, Gary VanderMolen wrote:
I just replaced the hard drive in an old HP Pavilion laptop.
The most important thing is to make sure the technology
is the same (SATA vs PATA). Also, some drives use adapters
to change the male pins to female sockets. Any mounting
hardware from the old drive should transfer to the new drive.

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