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With the Laptop Hard Drive Adapter from Cables To Go, you can easily connect your 2.5in notebook IDE hard drive to a 40-pin IDE cable for installation in a desktop or tower PC. Each adapter features 44-pin female to 40-pin male connectors, and a power feed.

Transfer files to/from your laptop to your desktop quickly and easily: Simply attach your laptop's 2.5in drive to this adapter, and connect the adapter to our Then plug the USB to IDE adapter into an available USB port on your desktop. Your 2.5in drive will appear as a logical drive, enabling you to pull files directly back and forth. Save when you buy this laptop to IDE hard drive adapter AND the USB 2.0 to IDE drive adapter -
  • Connectors: 44-pin Female to 40-pin IDC Male
  • Use: Connects your 2.5in notebook IDE hard drive to a 40-pin IDE cable
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Avg. Customer Rating:
 
4.6 stars
(based on 32 reviews)
94% of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Customers most agreed on the following attributes:

Pros:
Durable construction(15), Highly compatible(19), Reliable(20), Strong connection points(16)
Cons:
No performance gain(3)
Best Uses:
Computer equipment(25)
Describe Yourself:
Budget buyer(5), Quality oriented(22)
Primary use:
Business(8), Personal(23)

[1 of 2 customers found this review helpful]

 
Good product
By WmVerified Purchaser from Central, AR on 1/29/2010
Pros:
Reliable
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Good product[...]

[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Does not fit Dell Inspirion drive
By wrgVerified Reviewer from Central Arkansas on 1/14/2010
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a dead display. I bought this adapter to extract my data from the laptop drive. This adapter does not fit my Dell. The description should have included this information. I am out [$] for the adapter and shipping and I still don't have anything.

[1 of 2 customers found this review helpful]

 
Excellent Product
By RoughhouseVerified Purchaser from Chicago, IL on 1/8/2010
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible
Cons:
Weak Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Product work just like we expected it to. I had no issues connecting the IDE cable to adaptor. The included instructions were easy to follow and the connection was up and running in a few minutes. The only draw back is that the power connection is slightly loose. Not so much that the connection falls apart, but with enough jostling when I was placing the hard drive into a bay that the connection did fall off. Since finalizing the installation I have had no issues and can access the lap top hard drive is no problem.

[0 of 2 customers found this review helpful]

 
Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter
By GamerVerified Purchaser from Cranston, RI on 12/14/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Cons:
None
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment, High-End Equipment, Networking
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I used the cable to recover data from a bad laptop. It didn't fall apart in my hands. No problems.

 
Excellent backup device
By TomHVerified Purchaser from Fort Smith, AR on 10/30/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I used this device to save the hard drive information in a failed laptop

[3 of 3 customers found this review helpful]

 
Worked like a charm!
By PeteVerified Purchaser from Greencastle, IN on 9/15/2009
Pros:
Reliable
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Used to backup files prior to reformatting drive.
Worked exactly like I expected it to.

 
Just what I needed.
By EnigmaRx Computer RepairVerified Purchaser from St. Pete Beach,FL on 9/9/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable
Cons:
No Performance Gain
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment, Data recovery
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

This is just what I needed to recover data from a dying laptop drive. The machine itself wasn't getting power so I had to remove the drive and rescue the data with my PC. The laptop hard drive adapter was the perfect solution! Thank you for such a great product. I'll be purchasing cabling products from you again in the future!

[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Didn't Work For Me
By garyshomeVerified Purchaser from Pinehurst NC on 9/8/2009
Pros:
Flimsey
Cons:
Flimsy Construction, Weak Connection Points
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Don't know if it works or not. RMA'd the drive. The Adaptor got real hot, didn't want to take a chance on frying new drive. Never worked for me.

Cables To Go Response: This could happen if the power plug on the adapter was not connected correctly. You want to make sure the red wire on the power connector is connected to the R side and make sure the Black wire is connected to the B side. If these were reversed, it could have caused damage to the drive.

[2 of 4 customers found this review helpful]

 
Essential cable
By OakGroveVerified Purchaser from Whispering Pines, NC on 8/24/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

This is an essential cable to have in this day and time. I had a laptop go down due to my daughter spilling liquid on it. I had some files that I had not backed up yet to another source and I was able to easily transfer them to my desktop pc. Keep in mind you do have to have enough computer knowledge of how to connect the cable internally. There are IDE to USB adapters available but you can boot a pc from a laptop hard drive with this cable

[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Did the job
By Solver of my family's IT problemsVerified Purchaser from Portage, IN on 8/18/2009
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I needed to recover some files from a laptop hard drive whose battery wouldn't charge and found some instructions on how to use this cable to plug it into a desktop PC. It did the job and for a good price.

Service & Delivery comments:

The part arrived quickly and well-packaged.

 
worked like a charm
By Norm From RIVerified Purchaser from Smithfield, RI on 8/17/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I bought this cable to troubleshoot and save data on a laptop hard drive via hopefully plugging it in to a desktop. Once you figure out how to set the laptop hard drive to be a slave drive, this cable permitted viewing the drive perfectly! Just added a drive letter and was good to go. Copied all the crucial files over to a backup drive, then ran diagnostics on the drive to repair it. Could not have done it without this cable; super product!

[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Does what it's suppose too
By ChrisVerified Purchaser from NYC on 8/13/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable
Cons:
No Performance Gain
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

This device performed the function it was designed to do. If you neet to hook a laptop hard drive to you desktop PC then this is the device for you. Easy installation. Just use a little caution attaching to laptop HDD, pins easily bendable.

 
Works for me! :)
By jhechtVerified Purchaser from New York City on 8/11/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Improves Performance
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment, Technician Tool
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I got one of those IDE/SATA to USB adaptoid thingies, so i could plug many different hard drives in easily - hey, I'm a tech! (grin)

Then I found out there were two different pinouts on laptop hard drives. My thingy only had the standard 40-pin plug.

By using this adapter, I can now plug into >all< the types of laptop hard drives I've encountered. It's cheap, well made, and comes with a useful orientation warning.

 
Fast and Simple
By PhoxVerified Purchaser from Columbus, MS on 7/28/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

The motherboard on my laptop had died, and I didn't back up the information on it. Without this adapter I would have lost all my documents, music, and the wedding videos I never finished compiling. Or at least I would have had to pay someone a couple hundred to move everything to discs. Now it is an extra hard drive for my desktop PC, and everything is safe.

 
Great price [...]
By KevinVerified Purchaser from Phoenix, AZ on 7/15/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Great Product!

Service & Delivery comments:

Fast Delivery

[0 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

 
Works and Priced right
By Matt6T9Verified Purchaser from Xenia, OH on 7/15/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Nice product for the price and gets the job done. If you need access to smaller drives without cost of other devices this is what you want.

 
[...]
By desloccVerified Purchaser from Warren Ohio on 7/6/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

The cable was easy to use, well constructed, overall a very sound investment for the price.

Service & Delivery comments:

Prompt delivery and I liked the ability to track delivery and shipment.

 
Great cable!
By SteveVerified Purchaser from Inkster, MI on 6/22/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I used this cable to recover data from the hard drive of a dead laptop. I just plugged one end of the adapter right into the HDD,and attached an IDE cable to the other side, then plugged the IDE cable into my PC. I then recovered all of my valuable data from the laptop HD. This adapter was a lifesaver.

 
Timely & Responsive
By BodoVerified Purchaser from Austin, Texas on 6/13/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Very helpful suggestion that proved correct.

 
Works as advertised
By MAHVerified Purchaser from Huntsville, Alabama on 6/2/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Special purpose as needed
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Mind the power cable. It can slip off and is not keyed. Also, you may have to configure (add, move, or remove jumpers) your notebook drive to be a slave (I had to).

 
Laptop IDE
By APVerified Purchaser from Gulf Shores, AL on 5/30/2009
Pros:
Handy
Best Uses:
Troubleshooting
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Excellent little adapter. Works great for getting data off older laptop IDE drives.

 
RESCUE RELIEF!
By TREPPYVerified Purchaser from NJ on 5/21/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Soooooooooooo easy to use. I was able to quickly re-connect the hard drive from a trashed laptop and was back in business in minutes. For those of us who do not back-up as we should, this is a life-saver!!

 
Every tech needs one of these.
By StewyVerified Purchaser from Canton, OH on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Improves Performance, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Every tech should have one of these. It is very helpful to be able to take a laptop hard drive and recover the files.

 
Did the trick
By Reynard_FoxspiritVerified Purchaser from Vancouver, Wa on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Basically I needed this cable as a way to connect laptop HDD's to my computer so that I could either test them, or to retreive data from broken down HDD's. Some of the origional USB converters that came with them wouldn't work, so I had to try another way. So far, I have recovered 30 TB's worth of information from a multiple HDD's. Very glad to have this now.

 
Worked like a charm!
By WillVerified Purchaser from Dallas, TX on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable
Cons:
None
Best Uses:
Data Retrieval
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Worked perfectly in retrieving data from several friends and relatives notebook drives.

 
Nice Little Adapter
By FranklinVerified Purchaser from Bronson, Ks. on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable
Cons:
No Performance Gain
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Value Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

With this Adapter you can load an o/s on laptops with out a cd-rom just install the adapter in a desktop computer and hook up the laptop Hard drive to it, Then install and copy the setup files to the laptop hard drive and reinstall the hard drive back to the laptop and run the setup files and away you go!!! Simple!!!

 
This is a must have
By waynecoxVerified Purchaser from richmond, va on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

this product help me save a high end laptop from the junk yard, and save a friends doctoral dissertation from the land of lost data.

 
Did the job
By yochiVerified Purchaser from peekskill, ny on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Highly Compatible, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

This product did exactly what I needed it to do. I connected a hard drive from an otherwise dead laptop to my desktop PC. I was able to salvage all the data from the laptop hard drive.

 
Works like a charm
By CCRVerified Purchaser from Amarillo, TX on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Strong Connection Points
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

Works great feels a little flimsy but other than that is pretty easy to use.

 
Works as expected
By Val da BronVerified Purchaser from Boulder, CO on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Reliable
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I used the cable connector to hook a laptop hard drive to a desktop IDE connector. I had to transfer files from the laptop Hard Drive for backup purposes. The laptop wouldn't boot, and was to be sent in for repairs.

The cable worked as it was designed to, perfectly.

 
Quick and easy adapter
By automanVerified Purchaser from Asheville, NC on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Durable construction, Reliable, Strong Connection Points
Cons:
Instructions just fair
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

I use this to connect virus-infected laptop drives to a desktop unit for disinfecting. It's quick and easy.

 
did the trick!
By allepak_aVerified Purchaser from Charleston, SC on 5/4/2009
Pros:
Highly Compatible, Reliable
Best Uses:
Computer Equipment
Primary use:
Personal
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Cables To Go Laptop to IDE Hard Drive Adapter:

wanted to stay connected to my laptop's harddrive when it broke, and this component worked for me!

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