Hi Everyone,

I have 80 gig Samsung PATA Hard drive working with my Dell Inspirion, its almost 3 years and few days ago I decided to get a new one. I ordered from Amazon 160G Samsung PATA and arrived yesterday. When I try to install it, I realised that it is not compatible and I couldnt be able to figure that out!....

I hope someone can be able to provide an advice in order to get integrate with this new HDD. I attached the relevant images which is my old hard drive. It says PATA on it but I havent seen any PATA drive like this...

As far as I understood the new one that I bought is IDE (PATA) but my laptop motherboard is really different PCO, presumably. (its not SATA by the way). What is it called, I wonder...!

I would be highly appreciated if anyone can comeup with any advice.

Thank you.

You have an adapter attached to your original drive.
Just remove it and attach to new one.

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Thx for the response but here is the problem. It is indeed an adaptor but it's not come off. I just dont understand - why ? I tried but it is not removable. Its one piece. Never seen like this one... Seriously.

Go to your local computer shop, I am sure they will be able to do it for you for free.

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some of those 2.5s need a reasonable ammount of force aplied to the adapter to pull it out. In all the time i havent seen a single integrated adapter like this. So u should be able to remove it.

Agreed, it WILL come off.

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