I Bought the Wrong Laptop Hard Drive

[Kent10]

Hi:

I was receiving hard drive errors on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop so I bought a new hard drive but it is a serial one instead of ATA. Obviously the adapter from the old drive won't fit on the new one. Is there an adapter to make this work or do I need to order another hard drive. Thanks for your help, Kent

[screwballl]

return the SATA to where you bought it and get the PATA/IDE based laptop drive

[Kent10]

Thanks Screwball. Will do. Kent

[screwballl]

the problem is that even if you do get an adapter, the space is so tight in a laptop that the adapter wouldn't fit... so thats why I suggest to swap the drive for the IDE version.

[Kent10]

That's what I thought. I am thinking of getting this one and want to make sure it will work. I see it is out of stock at Newegg, however.
Newegg.com - HITACHI Travelstar 7K100 HTS721010G9AT00 (0A25015) 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

Right now I have a 60GB and so I have searched online and found some Insprion 6000 with 100GB but not the 7K100 model. I am assuming it will work but will continue searching a little longer. Thanks again, Kent

[gamerfreak]

Before you pick up a new drive, see if Spinrite will fix it. I'd be willing to bet it will.

[Kent10]

That Spinrite looks pretty amazing but isn't it as expensive as the hard drive. Can it really fix a hard drive's physical problems. I don't know what is wrong with the drive but before I received the errors I heard some louder than usual sounds. I don't need to recover anything on the drive because I have an image of it.