I have a hp pavilion ze 4400 LAPTOP with a broken hard drive. Is there anyway to use a standard hard drive or a USB thumb drive to get it to work temporarily? I am going on a trip and just want it so I can watch dvds on it. I don't want to invest any money in it right now because I have absolutely no use for it when I get back. Is there an adapter that I can get to use a standard ata hard drive? I realize the old hard drive won't fit inside it.

It has a working dvd rom, and I have an old 10 gig hard drive, and a usb 2gig thumb drive and a copy of windows xp hp home to work with as well.

Thanks for any help.

No.If I start looking for a used hard drive what should I look for? Should I just get a 2.5 inch ata laptop hd? I don't have the laptop yet but are all the older hard drives pretty mush the same? I know for a fact that it is not a SATA drive.

Also on the hp WEBSITE it said it is a 9.5mm hard drive is that the same as a 2.5 inch hard drive?

Thanks for any more help. I'd never buy a used HDD for any reason and that machine will work fine with any 2.5" ATA HDD up to 40G capacity.