Toshiba A100 hard drive

[kuczer1]

Hello all. I need a hard drive reader for a toshiba a100 hard drive. I need to get all the files off my hard drive as i am about to do a system restore. Any sugestions??? Joel

 

[andy faith]

something like this should do the trick

 

[oscaryu1]

Or something like http://cgi.ebay.com/Laptop-2-5-to-3-5-IDE-Hard-Disk-Converter-Adapter-O8_W0QQitemZ270162695156QQihZ017QQcategoryZ31567QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[kuczer1]

Thanks for the help guys. I had Akasa Integral one of these tools but the end of my toshiba hard drive doesn't fit into it. It has a funny shaped end that doesn't want to fit into the socket provided. Is anyone sure that these things will definatley work.
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This is a very crude drawing of what my hard drive looks like. The socket it has to fit into on my akasa hard drive reader looks like this

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Many thanks guys.

 

[andy faith]

yeh, your hard drive is serial ata rather than ide. mine will definately fit it. the other one wont

 

[kuczer1]

Cheers Andy you are a life saver. So does it have to be that particular make or what can i search for on ebay?