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On 05/11/11 17:42, George Parker wrote:
On 05/11/11 17:23, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, George Parker wrote:Stage 2. The new hard drive is not formatted and being a 2.5" drive will not fit into the works of a desktop computer.Yes it will. http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Solid+State+Drives/Mushkin+Enhanced+2.5%22+Solid+State+Hard+Drive+Bracket+?productId=44222 or http://url.drogon.net/0l GordonThis is an ATA hard drive and the cables for a 3.5" drive will not fit. As far as I can see this is only a mounting plate. George
You'd need a 2.5" IDE to 3.5" IDE adaptor. Something like this would do http://tinyurl.com/c3kn49p - £1.70 off eBay (or similar thing from about PC World for around 7 quid).
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