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Adapter cable to connect a SATA HD?

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Wondering if there is an adapter cable that can be hooked into firewire or USB to poer-up and read an eternal SATA drive (one removed from another failed PB or MB for data recovery)

Perhaps a pin-out diagram to make one up would do.

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what you're looking for is one of these universal USB 2.0 drive adapters - you can find other manufacturers too, not just this particular brand

FAR more versatile than an external firewire enclosure. a must-have tool for anyone who often takes apart computers and needs to transfer data between drives. - inexpensive and can interface to many different kinds and physical sizes of drives.

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These things are great. I used one when I had to clone my hard drive, and it was simple dimple. I have a couple of enclosures, but those work much better when you're making a permanent home for a drive.

Sterling Hirsh,

The adapters are indeed very helpful, but it's worth noting that if you're moving a lot of data around or wiping a drive, a firewire hard drive enclosure is a lot faster.

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You need a hard drive enclosure, you cant just connect it straight to the firewire port as there is complex circuitry involved. You can find one here

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Thanks everyone, I think the question is answered.

Merry Christmas to all... I'll see if there is still time for Santa to dredge up an adapter cable for me.

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Ok... Thanks for the info. However, are you sure this will work for a HD from a MacBook? The HD is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 120GB. I bought a similar adapter, a Vantec, and the connectors did not fit the HD. Has anyone used the product on the link above for a Mac Laptop HD?

The seagate is only a sata disk (ok, ncq - but the connector is the same). i can read, write and boot the connected devices. look out for a set with sata support.

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a universal drive adaptor

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