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2.5" Laptop SATA drive in Desktop PC? gus 07-09-2007
Posted by gus on July 9, 2007, 6:49 pm
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 I want to clone my 2.5" Dell E1505 Laptop SATA drive to a larger
drive. Since
the laptop has only one drive connection, can I put the two 2.5"
drives in a desktop
computer and do the cloning there? That is, are the SATA data/power
cables
the same and are 2.5" laptop drives compatible with a desktop?


Posted by me/2 on July 9, 2007, 10:29 pm
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:>I want to clone my 2.5" Dell E1505 Laptop SATA drive to a larger
:>drive. Since
:>the laptop has only one drive connection, can I put the two 2.5"
:>drives in a desktop
:>computer and do the cloning there? That is, are the SATA data/power
:>cables
:>the same and are 2.5" laptop drives compatible with a desktop?

Yep, SATA laptop drives use the same connectors for both power and
data as SATA desktop drives.

At least every one I've ever seen does. Had to CYA there. :-)

me/2

Posted by M.I.5¾ on July 10, 2007, 2:40 am
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>I want to clone my 2.5" Dell E1505 Laptop SATA drive to a larger
> drive. Since
> the laptop has only one drive connection, can I put the two 2.5"
> drives in a desktop
> computer and do the cloning there? That is, are the SATA data/power
> cables
> the same and are 2.5" laptop drives compatible with a desktop?
>

Alternatively, there are USB to SATA adaptors as well as Cardbus (PCMCIA) to
SATA cards.



Posted by Mickey on July 10, 2007, 10:46 pm
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>
>
> >I want to clone my 2.5" Dell E1505 Laptop SATA drive to a larger
> > drive. Since
> > the laptop has only one drive connection, can I put the two 2.5"
> > drives in a desktop
> > computer and do the cloning there? That is, are the SATA data/power
> > cables
> > the same and are 2.5" laptop drives compatible with a desktop?
>
> Alternatively, there are USB to SATA adaptors as well as Cardbus (PCMCIA)=
to
> SATA cards.

OR 2.5" SATA external caddies. that i think is the easiest option.
They generally require 2 USB ports or 1 usb and 1 power port. When
plugged in it will be like a plug n play drive.


Posted by Barry Watzman on July 11, 2007, 2:01 pm
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Yes, they are the same, and you can do that.

gus wrote:
> I want to clone my 2.5" Dell E1505 Laptop SATA drive to a larger
> drive. Since
> the laptop has only one drive connection, can I put the two 2.5"
> drives in a desktop
> computer and do the cloning there? That is, are the SATA data/power
> cables
> the same and are 2.5" laptop drives compatible with a desktop?
>

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