Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Well, if it's a SATA disk, it clears things up. Somehow,I was getting the impression that the laptop you got was too old to have SATA.
That's the impression I got too, which is why I'm thinking that anything in this thread still might not work.

Realistically though, if the laptop is 4 years old, it's still reasonably likely to have SATA.