Slimline IBM CDRW connector identification

[tacticalfate]

I have an old thinkpad T42 lying around, and my laptop's optical drive just died. I pulled this out of the thinkpad, thinking I could just get an enclosure and use it as an external drive, but none of the external IDE CD/DVD enclosures I've searched for seem to have the same connector. Can anyone identify it for me? The drive is a Hitachi GCC-4242N.

 

[Snipergod87]

Looks proprietary.

 

[Recycled]

If the optical drive died, how can it be used in an external case? It died.

I'm only guessing at what You meant from here on:

If You need a new DVD drive, they are on FleaBay:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Drives-Storage-Blank-Media-/165/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=thinkpad+t42+dvd

If You want to reuse an old drive (for the fun of trying,) check to see if it will come out of a caddy it is screwed into.

If You want a working DVD drive, buy one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=external+dvd&N=-1&isNodeId=1