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It converts a 44-pin (laptop hard drive) to a regular IDE. If you have any questions they are very knowledgeable and eager to help. This is a simple good product. CablesOnline shipped the order so fast.
Did not fit due to poor constuction. I would not recommend this product to anyone.
Also, the supplied power dongle is pure junk. About the best thing I can say is under ideal conditions it's able to do what it claims to do. Often times I don't have room for it in a huge mix of adapters or a tight fit. I've pulled all the plastic off the power dongle and bent the contacts to get it to fit in tight spaces. When it works, it works, when it doesn't work I find something else. The real problem is with the power adapter and jumper settings. That's a limitation on its usefulness.The bigger problem is clearance for the power connector.
The pins fell out of the plastic housing after one use. (ps - I don't recommend doing this, you'll need to be very careful)I'd be more unhappy if it hadn't been so darn inexpensive. Turns out more than this product offers. First I've found that this thing only works as advertised in some jumper settings. None of these are real deal breakers.
This one works great, it also has the added benefit of a power cord so you can access hard drives that are require a power source separate from the USB. I would recommend this to a friend. I have had difficulty in the past with external hard drive enclosures for laptop drives that I took out of laptops. I'm happy with my purchase and was able to salvage some old hard drives from broken computers.
I bought a laptop HDD to IDE converter. I got what I paid for, the terminal connectors did not survive and I had to directly wire it to the power supply.
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