Replacing a 1.8" IDE hard drive with CompactFlash
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- In this guide, I go step by step, showing how to replace a laptop hard drive with flash storage. I am replacing the 1.8\" PATA IDE hard drive in a Toshiba Portege 2000 with a CompactFlash card.
This same procedure will work for Toshiba Portege models 2000, R100, R200, and R400.
What you will need:
AOMEI Backupper - www.ubackup.com/
2.5\" IDE to USB converter - amzn.to/3dBNSBI
2.5\" IDE to 1.8\" IDE adapter - amzn.to/3IrBBxI
1.8\" IDE to CF converter - amzn.to/3EFeTQu
CF card - amzn.to/3dx8XwW
or, alternatively:
CF card to SD converter - amzn.to/3oCGD2v
SD card - amzn.to/3GvPutc
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Removing the hard drive
0:50 Clone the hard drive into CF card
6:52 Install the CF card
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Amazing. Finally I achieved to found a video about this. Thanks.
Since 1998 I have done this on many laptops. The Issue is to connect the Compact Flash to a newer system to get its physical attributes as older systems you have enter this by hand.
Also You have the Single Compact Flash Adapters and the Dual Compact Flash Adapter. The Duals are great if it an ols laptop without a CD Drive. If it has a CD Drive, than the system will be bling to the second CF Card on the Adaptor.
With Mac laptops and desktops using IDE, you can only use the Single Adaptor. If you use a Dual Adaptor, even with only 1 CF Card in it, It will not boot. It will only give you a grey screen of pixels. Nothing more. But the Single CF Adaptor is the one that works fine with Macs.
thank you for this informative comment. You most likely know more of the nuances and details than me regarding this. How do you enter the attributes into a CF card? I read that newer CF cards may be incompatible with older systems due to the attributes.
perfect solution for a Dell Latitude X1 laptop as well
I bought this exact laptop and have been trying to connect a CF card directly to the ribbon (connector is identical on the HDD) but I akways got the IDE #0 error. You've shown me that an adapter is indeed needed, probably pins order is changed. Thank you very much!
Good: Detailed explanation with nice visual details, background music also ok. Less good: lengthy "progress percentage" parts, could just fast forward. Not good: lack of insight into CF card modes, i.e. mobile mode cards and ATA mode cards, This could be really useful. Overall impression: nice video, effort is seen. Thank you!
thanks for the feedback! indeed, CF card modes are interesting in it's history and in the fact that using them as hard drives work best in ata mode, which not all cards support or can be made into. I think it's a relevant subject, but I'm not an expert on it
Nice laptop, wouldn't mind one of those for my collection.
haha, indeed. Old laptops have a unique character.
Very good and helpful video! 👍Good job!
one thing to recommend, spam the power button after you remove power. that will kill any remaining charge left in the caps
Does that actually work? Pretty neat suggestion.
I actually like to run AOMEI partition assistant to clone hard drives. Cool video though didnt even know 1.8” was a thing for laptops. What is your opinion on the read/write life of using these flash cards to run an OS?
1.8" was a short and unpopular phase in laptops because those drives had worse performance than 2.5" drives, which were already the bottleneck in laptop performance. Then, uSATA and mSATA came along. Now, there's M.2, so there's plenty of options that fit the space requirements of ultraportables without any sacrifices to performance. CompactFlash is definitely not meant to be used as a SSD, and they don't have as much write life. Read life shouldn't be that big of a deal. It's writing to flash memory that wears them down. The main features missing from CompactFlash that are in modern SSDs are wear-leveling algorithms and TRIM support.
However, having said that, I don't think anyone will actually hit the limits of a CompactFlash card by putting one in an old laptop. The performance is actually better than old IDE hard drives and I don't see people having workloads that will do that much writing onto the CompactFlash card, such as transcoding video or moving large music or video files around. Even gaming would be limited to old "retro" games due to the other specs on the laptop, and these old games are much smaller in size. Gaming also doesn't do a lot of writing to the hard drive/SSD. I think the most common use case would be that someone has an old laptop sitting around with sentimental value, and they want to swap in a CompactFlash card to keep it running, since the hard drive is one of the first things to go. Then, they'll play with it for a while, and move on to do real work on a modern machine with a modern SSD.
I have the same laptop.cant find a micro 1.8 hd. I will try this i have a compact flash.just need the adapter 👍👍
I am also looking for a 1.8" SSD PATA 50pin drive but KingSec don't make them anymore. So far I haven't be lucky to find one. I am thinking of buying a PCMCIA card and a CF card, what do you think?
This CF card doesn't work well. Almost all cards are now in mobile mode. The CF card that can be installed in the system and can be partitioned must be ATA mode card. ATA mode system will recognize as local disk and partition normally. The cards I tried were West digital and STEC. The particles used by both brands are SLC, but the speed can only reach ata33 standard.
Thanks for the comment! This is very educational. Indeed, I had to look on eBay for older CF cards. Had good luck with Toshiba and Transcend. As both don't seem to be making CF cards anymore, the stock was old enough where they supported ATA mode. However, I did not have any issues with using a newer Sandisk CF card in this R100 laptop.
¿how many cicles of read & write can give a compact flash or how long does it last? is necesary to desactivate the defragmenting tool?
this would not be a good long term solution for everyday use. it is only suitable to get an old laptop working for occasional use.
please make one video if i have usb bootable pendrive i have use BR Automation pc if have damaged pc so how to i use gigabyte ddr3 motherboard this pen drive need to run that time this one msg came so what can i do ? & give me some suggestion
1.The system may not support the PCI bus
2.The PCI adapter may not be properly installed in a slot
3. Some of the PCI adapter resources in configuration space may be invalid
Hi David, i have a 1.8''' HDD IDE that i removed from my old laptop, i saw your video and i noticed that you used a toshiba 1.8''' to 2,5''' adapter. I looked at amazon,ebay and at ali express for this adapter but i couldn't find it. Can you recommend me a place where i can get this adapter since i bought a "HDD adapter converter" (doesn't fit with the 1,8'' sadly) and i wanted to recover the data from this 1,8'' HDD any information helps thanks!!.
hi, you're right. I couldn't find any suitable options available still being sold. If your laptop still works, then you can hopefully use it to recover your data by creating a Ubuntu live USB and booting off of that. Otherwise, I think your last option would be to buy a similar laptop off of eBay or something and install your drive into that.
Can I boot up an OS on a usb without a physical hhd or ssd installed?
Yes, at least if your using Linux. You could do it with Windows as well but I don't recommend it, it's using too much resources. I have an old USB disk with Windows 8 I can run directly from the USB, but it takes ages to load. There's also a version of Windows for admins called WinFE which stands for Windows Forensics, but it's only meant for saving data or checking.
Hi. Nice video. What about using a PCMCIA card? Have you tried it?
I do have a video demonstrating Installing from a PCMCIA CD drive: czcams.com/video/-BpJVAK5jPw/video.html
I went ahead and bought one, not arrived yet.
Please, would a 1.8" zif ssd work? If so, would I need an adapter to connect it to IDE? Thanks in advance.
A 1.8" zif SSD would not be able to plug directly into the laptop, and you wouldn't have enough space for a zif to ide adapter. You would also need to find one of those if they exist.
@@davidsdetaileddiscussions Thank you very much again for letting me know. Also, would a SanDisk ExtremePro CF card work? I don't know if it supports ATA mode. Thanks again.
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@@davidsdetaileddiscussions 7:05 lol
Buys a 128GB CF, only create a 60GB partition, smh
You could at least have 1 extended the actual partition or 2 created a second one, showing as D under window s
You'd probably hate it even more when I created one 1GB partition on a 128GB CF on an even older laptop. For older laptops, either the computer itself or versions of Windows that are compatible with it have limitations on hard drive size. But, in this case, yes, I could've created multiple partitions to use the entire CF card. However, the point of this video is to show how to replace the original 1.8" IDE hard drive with a CF card.
The last time a partition was limited to 1GB, it was in DOS 6 lol. Windows 2000 can (like winXP) handle up to 2TB per partition. At this point and with this mentality, why even wasting money buying 128GB CF cards ?
@Fake Account Yes i totally understand this use case, my point is that he is stupid and could have bought a lower capacity cf card for way cheaper, given that he doesn't want to adjust partitions.
i have a cf card to sd card