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tomandjerry · 05-14-2008, 04:55 PM

Hello everyone,

I need abit of help, what i want to do is replace my PC 3.5 IDE hard drive with 2.5 Laptop Hdd.

I bought 2.5 40pin to IDE connector so i can hook it up to my pc

http://ubuntuguru.files.wordpress.co.../hxidek1_s.jpg

I have two IDE cables on my pc, one connecting to 3.5 Hard drive which is primary master and the other to dvdwriter which is secondary master.

I removed the original hdd and connected the laptop hdd to converter and converter to the ide cable.

The drive was detected in bios so i popped in the xp cd to install windows on it. I got to the partitioning screen and i could see the drive appear on there with unpartitioned space, so i pressed "c" to create partition and use all of the space and pressed enter. At this point it goes back to the parition screen and everything is same as it was, no partition was created.

Can you please help on what i am doing wrong? i assumed i did not have to mess about with jumpers as i am going to use it as the main drive on primary ide.

Is it not possible to use 2.5 hdd only on a pc?

05-14-2008, 04:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
tomandjerry Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP Pro SP2	Laptop 2.5 hdd on pc Hello everyone, I need abit of help, what i want to do is replace my PC 3.5 IDE hard drive with 2.5 Laptop Hdd. I bought 2.5 40pin to IDE connector so i can hook it up to my pc http://ubuntuguru.files.wordpress.co.../hxidek1_s.jpg I have two IDE cables on my pc, one connecting to 3.5 Hard drive which is primary master and the other to dvdwriter which is secondary master. I removed the original hdd and connected the laptop hdd to converter and converter to the ide cable. The drive was detected in bios so i popped in the xp cd to install windows on it. I got to the partitioning screen and i could see the drive appear on there with unpartitioned space, so i pressed "c" to create partition and use all of the space and pressed enter. At this point it goes back to the parition screen and everything is same as it was, no partition was created. Can you please help on what i am doing wrong? i assumed i did not have to mess about with jumpers as i am going to use it as the main drive on primary ide. Is it not possible to use 2.5 hdd only on a pc? Last edited by tomandjerry : 05-14-2008 at 04:56 PM.