What kind of hard drive is this and what do I need to make it external (details)?

2.5” SATA drive. This will make it USB 2.0
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

The drive says it’s SATA, but it looks almost like it has some kind of adapter on the back. Is that an adapter of some kind on the connector or are my eyes all wonky?

@mrentropy :: Is right. I missed the second pic. Those are not normal SATA ports. Can you pull the part on the back off?

@math_nerd I’ll see if it’s possible to take the other case off and get back to you. Thanks :)

Did this happen to come from a Apple laptop?

Here is the drive and what the SATA ports should look like

It looks like an IDE adapter is attached to the sata bit. Hopefully it should just pull off. Don’t open the HDD case.

I didn’t open it, yet, so I won’t. @math_nerd It came from an older HP laptop. It’s about 2 years old.

I think this is the adaptor. I just replaced the hard drive on my HP laptop, and it had one these stuck onto a normal hard drive – SATA HDD CONNECTOR FR Compaq Presario V2000 V2100 V2200