# Where can i get an IDE cable adapter...
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943 "2008-03-06T09:37:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/1 "2008-03-06T09:37:18Z")
to dump my laptop HD onto my desktop? eh? local?
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/2 "2008-03-06T09:45:28Z")
You can buy an external USB enclosure which the laptop HD plugs into and then connects to your PC… Then it will just show up like a Flash Drive.
Probably Best Buy or Circuit City. Maybe Radio Shack.
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/3 "2008-03-06T09:49:33Z")
what would that be called? i dont believe i’ve seen anything like that…
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### Author:  [@Klinkb](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Klinkb)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/4 "2008-03-06T09:51:54Z")
get an ide to usb adapter
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/5 "2008-03-06T09:53:50Z")
[http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145133](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145133)
Something like this here. How fast do you need it? I don’t know how great the selection at Best BUy will be for one of these… Or else it’s probably going to be way too much money.
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/6 "2008-03-06T09:57:19Z")
the laptop is fried and i need my tunes off it to burn chips for customers cars… if best buy will have it, then i’ll try there… would there be any other place to try?
…and is “IDE” indicate a laptop or desktop connection?
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### Author:  [@Klinkb](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Klinkb)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/7 "2008-03-06T10:00:20Z")
they both are ide, but im pretty they are either smaller or have a different amount of pins for a laptop
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/8 "2008-03-06T10:06:53Z")
alright… got it.
i know its goign to be like 26234234$ at bestbuy
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/9 "2008-03-06T11:36:01Z")
Instead of an enclosure get one of these: [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102&Tpk=bt-300](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102&Tpk=bt-300)
Or for gas money I can come and loan you mine. It works awesome and can fit any hard drive to a USB device.
IDE can be laptop or desktop. The pin layout is different and getting power to the drive is totally different.
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/10 "2008-03-06T11:56:33Z")
I’ll get out and just buy one, i appriciate it though. I just hope i can find it local
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### Author:  [@xlogic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xlogic)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/11 "2008-03-06T11:59:10Z")
> [@My Girlfriend owes me...not really, but...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-girlfriend-owes-me-not-really-but/35288/16):
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> I’ll get out and just buy one, i appriciate it though. I just hope i can find it local
if i can find mine your welcome to use it, i’ll look after i’m out of the shower
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/12 "2008-03-06T12:01:24Z")
Sounds good. I doubt you’ll find anything like that at a chain store like Best Buy. A local computer store or something might have one. Be sure to tell them laptop IDE when asking. Converting to USB will be easier than popping open your other computer and dealing with a laptop IDE to standard IDE converter. But that type of adapter is less common.
If you change your mind or are around Rochester - my offer to borrow it stands.
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### Author:  [@noahTHEpurdy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/noahTHEpurdy)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/13 "2008-03-06T13:55:39Z")
If you want to drive to Wexford, I can give you one from our shop.
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### Author:  [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/14 "2008-03-06T16:28:42Z")
Thanks guys, I think I have one lined up.
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### Author:  [@xlogic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xlogic)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/15 "2008-03-09T00:38:59Z")
> [@FS: My 2005 elise... on ebay!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-my-2005-elise-on-ebay/34500/131):
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> Sounds good. I doubt you’ll find anything like that at a chain store like Best Buy.
compusa has them…don’t know if any of them are left around pgh…i know the one out monroeville closed and they had some
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-can-i-get-an-ide-cable-adapter/195943/16 "2008-03-09T09:08:46Z")
compusa in robinson is where i got mine.