Recycle Blu Ray Player from the laptop with an adapter as an external drive?

Ko
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I have a BlueRay player in my old laptop. But my new laptop doesn't have…

theoretically you could connect the old BlueRayPlayer to the new laptop with the help of an adapter? To do this, you would have to first know which connector is connected to the mainboard. For me it's a plug-in connection. Is that PCIe or Sata or something else? These players are probably also hooked up very standard… I haven't opened the old laptop yet. Because I think to expand the BlueRay player you have to remove the motherboard…

what do you think what will await me there?

co

You can easily expand the BlueRay player in your laptop.

On the underside of your laptop there are 1-2 screws that you simply have to loosen.

Then you need an adapter, I have the adapter from Inateck for my old HDDs:

https://www.amazon.de/...00JEVDRNS/

Ko

Thanks for the answer. What do you think what kind of connector that is? I had already removed the BlueRay Player once. But that was years ago… What if that were a SATA connection? In theory, you could just use a satellite cable, right? But I think that's different… Maybe not a miniSata but a? It's a 10 year old Dell laptop. Well, there will probably be no way around unscrewing the laptop. After all, I also want to use the BlueRayPlayer ;-)

Are there possibly also completely different special connections? So some kind of PCIe for laptops?

co

That really depends on the connection. Just unscrew the player and see what kind of connection it is. You need an adapter to USB and a power supply. The power from USB alone will not be enough.

Ko

And at thunderbolt usb c?

co

Ok, i'm out. Can work with the right adapter. But since you are removing an internal drive, it will definitely not have a Thunderbolt port

Ko

Here i made a screenshot. I just don't know how4 to upload it?

Ko

Unfortunately you can't upload any pictures here.

Ko

But the connector I wanted to show looks totally strange. So that is unfortunately not a sata connection. Rather, the connector is bent downwards and is plugged onto the circuit board as a male from top to bottom. So this is a 10 year old Dell laptop

Ko

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tTjAzPUvEarhakFLCgQR7PzfP-NPmqbp6X51qynwkEHiIBmI_pumpgmgeuYo0mATrlKrQ=s106

Ko

But I only think that this is an adapter plug that you can pull out. So I'll try to take this thing out.

Ko

By the way, I expanded it and there's a SATA connection 6 + 7. I think that's pretty normal. Or? There are so simple cables sata to USB… I'll try that out