Hard drive enclosures help please

[Garyd1985]

Hello all,

Having some trouble finding the correct hard drive enclosures for and old 3.5 WD400 enhanced IDE Hard drive close to fifteen years old, ones I’ve seen pins don’t match up.

Laptop hard drive Seagate Momentus 5400.2 120GB SERIAL AT DISC DRIVE

Been to local pc world and all current types there and online cannot find ones that fits pins for the above.

See attached photos.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards

Gary

[Bruce]

those 40-pin IDE connector external enclosures are very hard to come by.
my pc parts supplier stopped stocking them about 6 years ago.
you may have to get a used one off ebay for example.

[Garyd1985]

Thanks Bruce,

Planning on a visit to local pc store later today although not feeling so optimistic knowing how difficult they are to find.

Thanks,

[Bruce]

as to that 2.5" drive, you will have to take it out of that bracket it is currently in and then those pins can come off to reveal the actual hard drive pins.

[Garyd1985]

Thanks Bruce,

[phillpower2]

Any update for us?

[Garyd1985]

Local PC repair store have an old 40 pin connector for the desktop hard drive which they were able to retrieve all data from it

Thanks to Bruce for the advice re removing the bracket to reveal the hard drive pins from the 2.5 so now sorted and got media.

Thanks for help

[phillpower2]

Glad to hear that you got it sorted and thank you for the follow up (y)