Swapping hard drive into external enclosure

Hello. I just installed a hitachi 160gb hard drive in my macbook. No problems, easy as pie. So I wanted to install the original toshiba 60gb into a usb external enclosure, here's the problem. So the hard drive has a plastic part on it that covers the 40 pins. I don't know how to remove this so I can install the hard drive in the enclosure. There's a couple screws, but I'm a little afraid of taking it apart, and not sure if they are holding it in place. Thanks, Mike

Well I see that's the problem. There are SATA ones
and IDE ones, and I bought an IDE. It's too bad that
advertiser say their item will fit any laptop hard
drive. Thanks. Mike
How did I know that? I made the same mistake buying one off eBay. You need one like this.
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