Want to replace malfunctioning 20 pin IDE DVD drive (4 pin red yellow double black power) with SATA DVD drive - any insight will be appreciated. Mike
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this will connect to your mother board then you need to use or buy a SATA cable long enough to go from your MB to the drive then check you power supply for a small 4 wire plug then plug it in to the adapter power connection then you need to use a adapter for your drive power supply buy one if you don't already have that changes old power to new style . item 1 IDE to SATA, item two 1 SATA wire 10in + , item 3 power conversion wire from old style to new SATA power wire 10in+
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If its Sata it wont work, has to be ATA or they also called it IDE, for newer Dell Laptops, Sata will work and not ATA (IDE).
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Hughes, sorry to hear that the product did not work for you. I ordered the same hard drive for my Toshiba which uses the IDE connector and it worked fine. In same laptops it is not easy to fit in the hard drive and align the pins properly but if your laptops uses IDE connectors, I am very positive that the product will work. As far as i know, the hard drive is either a SATA, PATA or IDE kind of technology. And if it IDE, that drive should be able to work. However, your situation may be different am not sure, but all i say mine is working fine. Otherwise you can also try to compare with the old one and see if there is a match. Thank you.
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No, the interface is different This one SATA. U have an IDE hdd (old school). So that being said look for an 3.5 IDE hard drive. i bought this one great product no issues: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004BU6ITW?cache=f26e78305da93118e7fc972f1c8c77ddπ=SX200_QL40#ref=mp_s_a_1_2&precache;=1
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Agree with the other respondant. However, if you have a usb cable, try on another computer. The starTech sata IDE cable should work if the disk is sata IDE.
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My unit came with a power adapter and works fine with both IDE and SATA devices. I am very pleased with it's performance. Some people leave them connected permanently but I do not do this.
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Try returning it? I was very unhappy with my unit. The SATA connection was very loose and it was impossible to get a reliable connection.
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Should work fine, use the adapter from the drive you are replacing if possible.
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Only if you have SATA connections available to work with...otherwise find an IDE drive.
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To be honest with you, IDE to SATA 3 - why? That IDE interface is sooooooo slow it would bottle neck the speed poential of this SSD drastically. I question SATA1 being used with SSD. Time to upgrade the PC.
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Yes. This will definitely work on IDE drives. It had the standard 4 pin Molex cables as well as SATA.
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I have no idea ,, my problem was the strapped cable in the back of a computer had ide connectors and needed to connect to the new dvd burners which were sata
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Don't know enough to answer your questions about all drives in the world. But It worked like a champ on my old Western Digital 10 GB IDE drive. Can't figure why it wouldn't work on most other working IDE drives. Had no occasion to try the SATA cable yet. Can only assume it would work similarly. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Hi JerryYes It will work if your cable connectors are compatible.If you have an SATA system, which I think you do, them make sure the Hard Drive is also SATA. Small connector no pins.Your other choice is PATA / IDE, so make sure the hard drive has the same connector configuration. The PATA has the long connector with a bunch of pins. 42 I think.You can buy both in the same hard drive.I hope this helped.Walk In PeaceDavid
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shouldn't be a problem. I did the same thing. just plug the Vantec into ide and it becomes sata..don't forget to plug in power.
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Anything with a sata connection. I found ide to be too difficult to get working in the tiny ccase.I was able to salvage a bdrom drive out of my old laptop, and it works perfectly zip - tied in. Not flush but or doesn't really matter since it isn't visible at all unless you're puttinga disc in.
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In my case I have using an IDE DVD drive connected to a SATA socket on the motherboard and it works perfectly. Good luck.