What interface is on this laptop hard drive?

[OldGuyJeff]

Short version: I've removed an internal hard drive from my old HP laptop which hasn't worked in a long time.  I wanted to plug it into an IDE-to-USB adapter to extract the data.  However when I took the drive out, I discovered it doesn't match any of the connectors on my adapter.  I don't recognize it and do not know what to use, or if I should give up on this as a lost cause.

Any ideas?

Longer version:

Back in 2004, I purchased an HP laptop via its employee purchase program (I worked there at the time).

Unfortunately, I do not remember the model.  It was the 1st Pentium IV laptop HP produced.  It had a 15" screen.

I just returned from a visit to the Geek Squad at a local Best Buy where they extracted the drive for me and recycled the rest of the computer.

I didn't ask the Geek Squad people to extract the data for me because I had replaced the original Windows OS that came with the device with some version of a Linux distribution (I don't recall which, probably SUSE or Red Hat back in the days when you could buy their stuff on CDs in a box with printed manuals at Fry's Electronics).  The Geek Squad guy said they don't do anything with Linux.

I'm fairly certain that the system saw the drive as IDE, but the connector on the drive doesn't match any of the SATA or IDE connectors on my IDE-to-USB adapter gizmo that I purchased from Amazon.

I'm wondering what this connector is, and if there is any hope of me being able to extract this data.

I've got a photo of the drive sticker w/ the model and serial number info, and a photo of the connector.

It 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

That connector can be removed to expose the standard IDE connection.

Some SATA drives on those old HP notebooks have the same type of adapter.

Just give it a tug.

[OldGuyJeff]

This worked perfectly, thank you!

I had not occurred to me that I could just pull off that connector.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.