Re: [LUG] Toshiba Laptops in Exeter?

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Brough, Tom" wrote:
> Simon said:
>
>         >Have a friend trying to revive a Toshiba Satellite without a
>         CD-ROM.
>
>         >I remain unconvinced it is worth the effort, but if anyone has
>         the relevant external CD drive, or a Toshiba of a similar era
>         with CD ROM drive which he can swap hard disks drives on.
>
> If its any help I had a similar problem with a laptop. To get around it I
> purchased an adapter widget that converts a starndard 3.5" EIDE connector on
> one end to the slimmer connector for 2.5" Laptop HDD's on the other end.

Urm won't that leave me the same problem that his old hard disk
doesn't fit my new laptop? With that device I assume it won't
fit my desktop machine either?

Simon, always a little vague on hardware standards - hardware
is boring ;)

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