Introduction: Home Made 2.5" to 3.5" IDE Converter

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About: I like to modify things, make things, and modify the things i make. im no math whiz or someone with perfect grammar, but i am good at making things. at my school ive taken the welding, machining, mechanics an…

So I needed a hard drive for a project and all I had was a 60GB 2.5" IDE one, unfortunately this project used a standard IDE cable and I don't have/don't want a 2.5>3.5 inch converter.

So I wasted an afternoon soldering 44 tiny wires onto a connector.
I went to this link to find out how the 44 pin 2.5" ide hard drive was numbered.

As I understood it, the top row was every odd number and the bottom row was every even number.
I split up a standard IDE cable and stripped 3/4 of a cm of coating off the ends. Then I looped it in half to form a flat oval shape.
I tinned the wire next, put it in the contact area, and heated it up to melt the solder.
The plug that I soldered to was one from a laptop, the adapter plug was designed so that it would be easy to swap a bad HDD for a good one. I suppose it was made so it would be (somewhat) easy to solder to as well.

Here are some pictures of the results, I currently have Windows XP installed on it and it works great.