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What Fred means is that if your laptop uses
an IDE drive you'll need to make sure that the
new drive is also IDE.
Gene
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From: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
> Fred says:
>
>
>> if your laptop is more than 2
>>years old the chances are good that it uses an IDE drive.
>>At which point you wouldn't be able to do any swapping.
>
> Oh, MAN. I think I'm almost home free, then a new twist arises! I have
> a WinBook (Microcenter in-house laptop) that's at least 3 years old.
> Now surely laptops had pop-out drives back then . . . I seem to recall
> they've had this for a while. Why won't I be able to pop this one out
> and stick in another?
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