help with laptop to desktop hard drive adapter

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I just bought one of these and it connects to the laptop HD no problem but
now I still can't connect it to my desktop because it isn't missing that one
pin in the middle of them all so I can't hook it up to my current ata cable
unless I wanted to do something stupid and pull out the one pin.

I've never even seen a pata cable that doesn't have the middle pin filled
in.
Lets say for example that the row on the hard drive that is missing the pins
is the top row.

There are 21 pins on the top row and 22 pins on the bottom row.
On the adapter there are 20 pins on each row, and if you are looking at the
pins straight on, then there are 2 wires red and black on the right side
(red wire is top row, black wire is bottom row).

I don't want to pull the pin on the top row but is a PATA cable that has the
all the pin holes?


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