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Hot Swap laptop HDD

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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.
 
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Just for future reference for anybody else reading this -

The SATA ports (power and data) on a 2.5" drive is exactly the same as that found on a 3.5" drive. You can use the same data and power cables as you would with desktop drives. The connectors are even located the same distance from the lower right corner of the drive, so with suitable spacers 2.5" drives can be mounted in 3.5" hotswap bays (although actually getting this to work is tricky, because the mounting holes are in different places).
 
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