Drive connector in Compaq Presario Laptop?

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Hi,

My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB
Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace
the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a
kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins
like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle
connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside
the bottom of the laptop.

I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that
"right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins"
(i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi
drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e.,
so I can't use the 7K100 at all)?

I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help
:(...

Thanks,
Jim
 
ohaya said:
Hi,

My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB
Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace
the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a
kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins
like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle
connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside
the bottom of the laptop.

I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that
"right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins"
(i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi
drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e.,
so I can't use the 7K100 at all)?

I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help
:(...

Thanks,
Jim
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Hi,

Just for the record, I've figured things out.

The "right-angle connector" that I mentioned in my original post is
actually an adapter that you can pull off of the "normal" drive
connector pins. I've done that, and now have the new 80GB Hitachi drive
installed in the laptop!

Jim
 
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