Marlene, I quite often take laptop hard drives off and hook them up to a pc to get data. I too use the adaptor. I have never had to jump the hard drive, I just put it on IDE 2 and then boot off my original hd. If you need the CD Rom then the jumpers would be needed. Looking at the back of the HD where the pins are, the pins to the far right would be device 1 or master or you jump the bottom two across to get cable select...rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlene Coldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCWorks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: PCWorks: Laptop Jumpers
> Hi Gang, > > I (Still) have a old dead laptop HDD that I pull out > every now and then and try to access the files. I have > purchased an adaptor which allows it to plug into a > desktop pc, and found information on how to set it as a > slave by the use of jumpers. That seems to be where the > problem comes in. My question is: Are there different > size jumpers for laptops, and desktops? I am referring > to the little plastic cover that goes over the pins. > The ones I have do not seem to fit the smaller pins on > the laptop. Next question: If they are indeed > different, where would I find the ones to fit the > laptop HDD? > > As it stands, using the jumpers I have now, my desktop > refuses to boot, citing primary HDD failure...even when > I have the jumpers to the laptop HDD set to slave, or > CSEL. > > Thanks, > Marlene > > PS: Sending it off for data recovery is just too > expensive :-(, and not an option at this point. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
