What type of HDD is used on this computer, SATA or IDE?

Yes, as long as the hard drive is also ide. For a while some computers came with a mix of ide and sata. I have seen many computers with sata hard drives and ide cd drives.

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You would have to remove the hard drive and use a usb sata ide kit
you will then have to connect it to your computer using a usb port

Sata doesn't use the jumpers like ide drives make sure the two drives are the same type. both ide or both sata.
Terry

Hi
Normally a laptop computer using the hard disk type 2.5 "

Here I attach the hard drive example for your reference.

Pic 1> 2.5" IDE HDD





Pic 2> 2.5" SATA HDD



Tq and regards

This computer has a IDE and SATA port inside it so you can either install a IDE or SATA drive on it, but what it came per built is a IDE drive.

Any computer store should carry both PATA (wide, usually grey, usually about 2 1/2 inches wide as I recall) or SATA (skinny cord, maybe 1/2 inch wide) hard drive connectors. They're inexpensive. If you don't have a store nearby, a site such as newegg.com will have them available as well.

You have to make sure first, what is your HDD type? is it IDE or SATA (Serial ATA).

Check it out: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-sata-or-serial-ata.htm

You should plug the data cable, to your hard disk. Remember, there's no way to plug your SATA cable to IDE HardDisk because the connector are not the same (I don't know if there's a converter between it).

So, make sure it first. If it IDE, find IDE data Cable, and make sure it plugged to your MainBoard and Hard Disk. Do the same procedure if it is SATA Hard Disk, only this time you should connect the SATA cable from your mainboard to your SATA Hard Disk.

Yes you can. You may have to go in BIOS or and select your SATA as the first drive to boot off of though, else it might try to boot off the old IDE. But once you're in windows, it will appear as another drive in my computer.

Thanks and please take a moment to rate as fixya.

Not complete product...need to buy additional adapter for IDE to SATA power source.
IDE drive will have to have the power source hooked up as well as the adaptor hooked up.
Installing the adaptor only will not work. Your computer should have the 4 pin plug for the power to the IDE drive, other wise you will have to buy another adaptor.

What type of HDD is your new one? SATA, IDE?

Do you have any USB disk devices plugged in to your system? USB hard drive or flash stick or other SD cards? Remove them and try rebooting again. These can sometimes take precedence over your HDD and your system will not boot.

Mike