SATA/NCQ Laptop Hard drive adapter

[sethbest]

I have been trying to recover files from a corrupted hard drive. No OS will boot on it, scandisk freezes on trying to correct index errors, HDD Regenerator shows no bad sectors.

The only option left that I can see is using an adapter and trying to pull the files off through a pc, but this hard drive, Seagate Momentus ST9160821AS, has a interface that I am not farmiliar with.

I do have an IDE converter for laptops but it interfaces with pins, and I cant find a converter that fits with this one, probably because its SATA NCQ. Is there another name for this kind of adapter that i can't find?

Here are some pictures of the interface, hope somone can give me some info on it.

 

[Tmagic650]

You could buy an external USB Sata enclosure for the notebook drive, and access it that way. This Seagate drive should be replaced under warranty (5 year)

 

[sethbest]

The way that i understand ata interfaces are 4 pin connecters, are you saying a ata enclosure would fit this connector type? The drive should work fine after i reformat it, i just need to pull some files first.

 

[Tmagic650]

I have never had trouble putting a SATA NCQ notebook in a good quality SATA external USB enclosure

 

[sethbest]

Ah well my innexperience with SATA shows, i guess the interface under the ridge converter is SATA, so im just ebaying a usb to sata conversion kit. Thx Tmagic for the tip.