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Old Toshiba Satellite M45 HDD, the regular 2.5 and 3.5 adapters won’t fit.

. I need to access and move files from this HDD.

You have a PATA (IDE) drive with an adapter frame for your system. You’ll need to remove the adapter frame to gain access to the pin interface just below it.

The IFIXIT [linked product missing or disabled: IF107-108-1] will allow you to connect your old drive.

victor wamiti, sure it will. Just remove the drive from the caddy by removing the 6 screws. you will find that the drive is a standard Fujitsu MHT2080AT 80GB 4200 RPM 8MB Buffer ATA/IDE-100 Ultra 44-pin 2.5 Inch 9.5mm Notebook Hard Drive. Here is the data sheet for the actual HDD MHT2080AT, MHT2060AT, MHT2040AT, MHT2030AT, MHT2020AT DISK DRIVES PRODUCT MANUAL