New Hard Drive for Packard Bell Easynote MZ35-216

[Fox777]

Hi There

 

I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here, trying to replace the Hard Drive in my son's Packard Bell Easynote MZ35-216 laptop. I wondered if someone could help me get the right Hard Drive ?

 

The old Hard Drive is a Seagate Momentus 4200.3 ( 80GB ) and I wanted to upgrade to a 500Gb Hard Drive. I purchased the following Drive from Amazon : Seagate Momentus 5400.6 ( 500GB ). Unfortunately I think I've messed up because the new Drive doesn't have the pins on it to enable me to plug it into the socket in the laptop.

 

Before I return it to Amazon I just wanted to check that it's definitely the wrong one...and perhaps find out what the right one would be ?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Many Thanks :)

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to fpch.

 

There are basically 2 types of connection you could have:

SATA or IDE

 

IDE is the older of the two and uses a broad ( usually grey ) data cable that has 80 wires in it.

 

SATA ( relatively recent ) has a much smaller data connection.

 

See the link here:

http://www.laptopparts101.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sata-ide-laptop-hard-drive.jpg

 

I suspect that your old hard drive is the IDE one and you have bought a SATA one.

 

( hope the pic helps )

[Dalo Harkin]

You have had a few responses on other forums too..........

 

I personally would say that the old HDD had an adapter on it and you need to use that on the new drive :)