Made a mistake on Hard Drive Purchase.... Help!

[eyeon]

Hello,

Last week, my work informed me that they would buy me a seperate HDD onto which I could back up my graphics work -- I have a fantastic enclosure which I have used numerous times to covert internal HDDs for external use, and thought that we could save some money by just buying an internal HDD. It seems however that I made a big mistake in my purchase...

The drive came today, and after opening it up, I immediately noticed that the connectors were all much different from anything I've seen... going to Seagate's website, it seems that I have accidentally ordered a serial ATA (SATA) drive when I actually wanted an ATA (PATA, IDE) drive... oops.

In order to save money and time on sending the thing back for the proper one (and, admittedly, to spare me the embarrassment of admitting I ordered the wrong thing!) is there any way to make this work in my enclosure, or anywhere for that matter?

Thanks in advance.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Short answer - No.
Any adaptor you might find will probably not fit physically in the case, and wil be just as much of a hassle to order as sending this one back.

 

[redAPPLE]

everybody makes mistakes. if explained, the company where you bought the thing would surely consider taking the wrong drive back. but don't wait. act now.

 

[robbieduncan]

You can get adaptors to allow you to use one SATA on a PATA connection and vise versa. See my links in .

Your real problem will be that space in external enclosures tends to be tight and there won't be room for any additional hardware.

 

[spinne1]

Maybe it is time to start using a SATA external exclosure. If you get one of those you can use the drive you just got, and take your old enclosure home for a backup hard drive.

 

[Ladybug]

If you don't mind spending a few extra dollars, something like this will allow you to use the drive you ordered externally.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145167

 

[eyeon]

Thanks a lot for the replies and the links -- this all helps a lot! I guess I'll figure something out...