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Searls03

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Hi,
I just pulled a really old drive. It has more than the standard 40 pins that pata drives do. What kind of cord does this use and do they make adapters from this to a 40 pin? Need to be able to pull data off and put onto another computer.
 
Please take a picture of the drive you are referring to. I'm assuming it's a SCSI drive but by your description I can't completely tell.
 
Yeah, I'm with Voyager on this, without a picture, we can't be sure. But it sounds a lot like a SCSI drive, they had 50+ pins if I'm not mistaken.
 
You'll need to find an adapter that can go from that to IDE and you should be able to get data off it.
 
I want to say it looks similar to this. I don't have it with me though. I know when I plug a PATA cord into it there are like 2 or 3 pins on each side that aren't plugged in. This image is from google as I don't have the drive with me currently.
 

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Searls03 said:
I want to say it looks similar to this. I don't have it with me though. I know when I plug a PATA cord into it there are like 2 or 3 pins on each side that aren't plugged in. This image is from google as I don't have the drive with me currently.
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Looks like 44 pin IDE connector, very common connector for old 2,5 inch HDD's (usually used in laptops). You just need an adapter, like 44-pin IDE to SATA.
 
Here is what it actually looks like. I was wrong before. The previous picture is not what it looks like
 

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I'm pretty sure the last 5 sets of pins that are closest to the 4 pin molex are actually the jumpers, they are usually separated from the regular pins though. Start connecting the IDE cable at the other end of the drive away from the 4 pin molex.
 
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