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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:44:47 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
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IIRC, the T43 hdd is 2.5" IDE. Does your desktop have any IDE connectors?
If so, then you will need a mini IDE to regular IDE connector, or two.
Ebay: 2.5" Laptop to 3.5" Desktop IDE Hard Drive Adapter HD Computer YP
*** $1.31, Buy It Now, Free shipping, 158 sold, From China

I am not familiar with clone software except WD. I have the WD proprietary
cloner since all my good hdd's are wd black.
The 8 others are small and only used for ms dos, w98, xp, Linux, etc.
Don't care about cloning them.

I have several desktop machines. They are all older and all are IDE. I
do have one somewhat newer one, which has SATA drives. I'm not sure if
that one also has IDE connectors, but I dont need to use that one
anyhow. I can probably use any of my other XP machines to make the
clone.

Although Partition Magic works fine in Win98, I am puzzled whether I
could make the clones using Win98, since the drives to be cloned are
NTFS formatted, and 98 dont support NTFS.... ??? (Just a thought,
because I have other XP machines that I can use, so I dont need to use
my Win98 computer).

Thanks for the connector info. At least I now know what to look for on
Ebay.

I am wondering if those mini IDE connectors also have the POWER
connectors included? Those mini 4pin Power connectors are also unique to
the laptop drives.
(I cant really access ebay now, being on dialup)!

In terms of general adapters, you can get items like this.
This has a 40 pin IDE for 3.5" drives, a 44 pin IDE for 2.5"
drives, and a SATA 7 pin for SATA drives. Only one drive
can be connected at a time. The weakest part of products
like this in the past, was the power adapters weren't very
good. So you check the reviews and make sure no one reports
an adapter problem.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812400416

https://www.startech.com/HDD/Adapter...r~USB3SSATAIDE

One of those allows connecting any of three drive types, via
USB, to one of your computers.

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Now, if you want to connect a 44 pin 2.5" drive to a
desktop, the 44 pin to 40 pin IDE adapter does the job.
The 40 pin connector is the one used on the 3.5" drives,
and only a passive converter is needed for 2.5" drives.
The pin spacing on the two connectors is different,
which is why they aren't even close to being the same.
The 40 pin is 0.1" spacing, the 44 pin is 2mm spacing.
The separate power connector provides +5V for the 2.5"
hard drive. Otherwise, there is no power on the 40 pin
connector for the drive to use, so a separate power
connector is required to run it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA6UM2EM2500

On SATA, 2.5" and 3.5" have the same connectors. It's
only the 1.8" SATA drives that have microSATA. So SATA isn't
quite as much of a nuisance.

Paul