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Same thing happened to me when I bought this scorpio black off the egg. I took a look at the old 160GB drive, and then over at the scorpio and i was like WHAT? But then I realized it was just a connector that slides onto the new drive.

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Looks like a standard SATA drive in a holder/caddy to me.

Check the underside for 2-4 screws and remove them - the drive should slide forward and out of the caddy, revealing a standard SATA port. Unlike IDE, the SATA port on a laptop drive is identical to that found on desktop drives.

So I have my old 160GB laptop drive just sitting in a box. If it's the same size as a desktop SATA port, does that mean I can plug it in and use it as an internal backup drive? What power cable(if any) does it use?

EDIT: found the answer on google.
 
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