Once you open your laptop you have to find this section and remove it. |
I cutted a S-ATA cable and expose the inner cables to solder them into the pcb. I used the info on wikipedia to recognize the pins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA |
I forgot to take a pic before of drilling the hole for the cables... so I used this pic to show how it was before I did drill the case. |
I used some glue to avoid the cables to move freely and most important, to avoid short circuits. |
I soldered the S-ATA cable to the pcb... |
Then soldered the power cables... This was a great fail! Because I soldered the cables on the same side the adaptor was!! So When I tried to put the pcb in place I realized that it didn't fit... |
The previous fail made me realize that the hole I had drilled was not enough to the cables to fit in. So I took a needle-nose pliers and made a hole big enough to allow the cables and plugs to fit. |
I soldered the cables to the other side of the pcb. |
This is how the hard disk fits in the second hard drive bay of the Inspiron 1720 |