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devizes18193
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Hi all .just to pick you brains.

I have a laptop which is about 2 years old and has i believe a ide hard drive in it . I notice a lot of hard drives have a sta interface . would i be correct in saying that it would be incompatible with my laptop .
my current drive is a FUJITSU MHV2040AT [Hard drive] (40.01 GB) and i am looking to upgrade .

Thanks

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  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    devizes18193 wrote: »
    Hi all .just to pick you brains.

    I have a laptop which is about 2 years old and has i believe a ide hard drive in it . I notice a lot of hard drives have a sta interface . would i be correct in saying that it would be incompatible with my laptop .
    my current drive is a FUJITSU MHV2040AT [Hard drive] (40.01 GB) and i am looking to upgrade .

    Thanks

    Yep, that's a 4200rpm IDE drive, you can't put a SATA drive in it without an adaptor (not even sure if there'd be room in a laptop for an adaptor).
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  • devizes18193
    devizes18193 Posts: 1,594 Forumite
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    chuckles1066 wrote: »
    Yep, that's a 4200rpm IDE drive, you can't put a SATA drive in it without an adaptor (not even sure if there'd be room in a laptop for an adaptor).
    thought that was the case . thanks
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