Endless Paradigm

You can buy 2.5 » 3.5 HDD adapters that plug into your IDE cable,



But your going to need a male pin header to bridge the gap between the 2 female sockets as that HDD does not have the standard male header,

looks good.

I'm currently improising another way of powering the archos just so i can use it as a portable hdd

ok, status report,

I'm currently working on a new way of powering the arcos. my first ideo was to use the 3.3v rail of my psu but i didn't want to mess with the psu.  so, what I've done is use  an old mobile phone charger which gives 400ma  at 5v and a resistor to bring the voltage down to 3.3v. so far I've been unsuccessful because as  the  load  current varies (as the archos works  or hdd access etc.) the voltage varies with it and it keeps freezing. so either i need a more beefy source of power or  a voltage regulator. I'm leaving it for the moment  because the solder fumes are  getting to me.