Laptop Sata HDD on Desktop

Rahul Sathanapalli

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Jul 25, 2015
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I recently took apart my very old laptop (Acer Aspire 5720) and removed the hard drive which had a lot of important data on it, so i thought I'd put the hard drive on my desktop but I am unsure as to how I can connect it to my desktop MoBo. :/
My laptop hard disk (Seagate Momentus 5400 160GB) has a port like this:
http://imgur.com/IPTGewj

and my Motherboard is an A88XM-E35 -MSI which has a sata port like this:
http://imgur.com/9nWuBit

How could i go about connecting the hard disk to the mobo?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance! :)
 

Rahul Sathanapalli

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Jul 25, 2015
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Alright thanks! :D it took me a while to figure out that the connectors were in fact the same :3
I happen to have only one power cable coming from my PSU so would it be alright if i used a 4-pin molex to SATA power in this case?
For example this one:
http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00LZP7ULQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00