Finally, I found the tutorial that is truly useful for those of us who have old and new 2.5" IDE's and can't get them to work. I have new and old hard drives that I haven't been able to make work as external drives. The most helpful part of this video was the instructional on how to format a new, or old, hard drive. Cheers m8
thank you! ive been looking around trying to figure out how to do this and you put it in the most simple, quickest, and most understandable steps, people who know nothing about electronics could do this the way you explained it, people need to explain things like that
Compared to SATA the IDE will be a lot slower. IDE is using a parallel data type transfer. The SATA is a very high speed serial type data. SATA may also show as SCSI in the drive properties, because SATA with some types of drives will emulate SCSI.
Great video. I had to take my 2.5 SATA hard drive out of a fully working but very out of date Toshiba Equuim with windows XP today. This laptop had served me well.
Thank you for the video! It was exactly what I was looking for! I have an old Fujitsu hard drive and I didn't know how to find a case for it! You have been a huge help!!!!
I agree with this. I still don't get why people still buy pre-made external hard drives where some of them are proprietary and are not SATA compatible hence you can't move the drive to another enclosure once some of the parts gives up.
Formatting doesn't have much to do with the speed of your pc (the i7 you mention), it has more to do with the disk write speed and the connector speed. As you have a USB 2 connector, your speed is limited quite a lot, you'd be better of with USB 3
What about overheating problems with these enclosures, how serious are they? Is there a way to avoid those problems, maybe to look for specific type of enclosure (with a fan or something) or something else? What do you think about those USB to IDE / SATA 2,5" / 3,5" (universal) kits? Are they better then these external hdd enclosures or not? Thank you!
+everyoneSalegend Different cases have different performances, nothing to do with being universal or not. I suggest searching some tech sites for some cases in your budget and see what has a good review as there are hundreds of different models available.
Came here to see how to make my 3.5 become an external drive, accidentally found out that a block i found a long time ago is actually a 2.5 external hard drive. Time to look for it and find out what's on it
Thank you so much this is so helpful, I fix my hard drive because of you it wasn't showing on my computer and now it's working great I did exactly what you said in the video. have a great day
Decent video dude. The enclosures for ole IDE internal hard drives are friggin difficult to find. However I have an usb 2.0 to IDE SATA adapter that little device is useful. But you would have to be careful not to move it around. Got it from walmart canada more than a year ago, before standard shipping fee jumped from 15.00 to 100.00 to northern area.
omg thank you so much i just finished salvaging our old cpus since we had a small computer shop before and i was wondering if i could see the contents again haha
hey, thanks buddy, u explain very well until the classification of SATA (new ! from desktop) & IDE (old ! from laptop) in 2.5 & 3.5 Sizes. now , what should I do if I don't have the cases & how can I connect my OLD DESKTOP HARD DRIVE to my LAPTOP ? Do I need a compatible cable & a power adapter ?? Will my laptop be able to accomodate my old internal hard disk with all my data ?? PLEASE , Boolean, DO REPLY. & THANKS AGAIN, you're doing a good job.
Is it possible to find/build an external hard drive casing for a 3.5" IDE hard drive with power supply? I took 2 IDE drives out of different old computers, one needs a power connection and the other has a powered bus.
Hello Babbling Boolean! What type of camera you used to record your tutorials? I like the video quality. Would you recommend it or is there another one you would recommend?
Great informative video but in your video you do not mention if someone has an external hdd and has an operating system already on that external hdd and how to boot into either operating system, the one in your pc or laptop.
Unless you know for a fact you are going to have files bigger than 4GB, then format is fat32. fat32 can be read across multiple Operating systems including Linux, Macs, etc. That is the reason why USB are fat. If you know you are going to be stuck using windows, then NTFS has it's benefits.
Good video... Good explanation! Ur voice isn't too fast lol. But for the 3.5 desktop one you really need a case??. I have a single usb to sata cable. It even has 2 usb connectors but it doesnt work :(... Help?
I can't find hardwares for my fostex FD4 digital mixer recorder,it's an old equipment,my Iomega jaz stops working.I saw in the manual I can install 2.5" ide hd inside,but hard to find the hardwares,like mounting parts,50 pin sockets,etc.,help is greatly appreciated.
I did this, when I plug in the external hdd and turn it on I get an error message saying the usb-device doesn't get recognized. The drive still worked before I replaced it with an ssd last week. Is it a problem that the drive still has the old Windows on it? Any idea how to fix this?
Babbling Boolean, creating the external hard drive went great everything show on line ready to use. not quite sure how to write and read on it. can you please explain?
1.5 TB 3.5 HD that is a big hard drive an around 50 bucks sometimes higher depending where you buy it but that is a lot of space you'll never run out lol
Hah! You should see the movie collection I want to move from DVD to HDD lol. But you're right, though. 1.5 TB is much more than enough room for the average person.
What do I need to do,to make a 1tb hard drive into an external one for the Xbox that I use now? And can I swap a 500g to a 1tb or does that need formatted?i don't have a PC.
After I retrieve all the stuff on my HD, how do I keep just my pictures. I don't care about anything else, I have a new 'puter, just want my pics saved on the old HD. I will be making my old 500G HD a new external HD. I have Windows 10, it sucks but. Thanx...
hey, I'm basically trying to recover old data from my old Toshiba satellite pro L650, it says it is a eSATA drive, does that mean its the same as a SATA? Do I need to buy a special adaptor or can I still use a SATA adapter?
hi, Suggest A KIT FOR SATA (2.5 & 3.5) & IDE (2.5 & 3.5) - DESKTOP HARD DRIVES to turn them into EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE - in India (which brand ?? what prices ? what capacity (how many GB ?? ) Please DO REPLY. thanks.
A regular 2TB Western Digital hard drive? Just follow the instructions in the video above, the storage size of the hard drive doesn't make a difference. Simply search for any external hard drive case for SATA hard drives, the only condition you didn't mention is if your hard drive is 2.5" or 3.5", those are listed on the hard drive case specs anyway. Don't think too much about it, it's simple. If you're having trouble, go to a tech shop and tell them what you told me.
Babbling Boolean Hey I got the sata to usb 3 cable I've hooked it up to my Xbox one as an external drive and it works. Is there any reason I would need a case?
Hello question, I have dell xps 8500 . it has ssd 32gb and 2tb hd. I know the ssd is to boost the booting. does it mean the boot occurred on the ssd or the hd?does windows in install on the ssd or hd?thanks
Will it also support on desktop? It will need a driver after installation in case? it will work like a external hard disk when plugged into the computer, like other external hard disk do? will it work like a USB to any computer?
I have internal hard drive of 250 gb + OS with 4 partitions. If I convert that to an external drive all 4 partitions along with folders in it will be there??? because in many videos I can see only one drive is available when we convert internal to an external..?? Some one please help!!!
Hi, I've an IDE internal HDD,I need to connvert it into an external one. This video was very helpful for me. Could you please tell me from where I could get the IDE casing....
Listened and watched but unclear as to saving content as the computer died but the hard drives I have were working and I do not want to waste the content in formatting.
Instead of the external enclosure can I use SATA and power adapter cables with usb to use the disk externally? I have difficulty finding the enclosure of the right size. My hard disk is 3.5" similar to the one in the video but its a lot thinner, almost half the thickness.
You could technically connect the hard drive to the computer using a SATA wire and power connections to the power supply but your computer case would remain open and static could damage the hard drive just sitting there without any protection. If your HDD is the same size but thinner then why not use an enclosure anyway? HDD enclosures usually include screws to attach a HDD in a enclosure to prevent it from shaking, so if the HDD is thinner, it wouldn't make a difference. The only way I know to connect a HDD to a computer via USB is with an adapter, HDDs themselves don't have USB ports directly on them.
Finally, I found the tutorial that is truly useful for those of us who have old and new 2.5" IDE's and can't get them to work. I have new and old hard drives that I haven't been able to make work as external drives. The most helpful part of this video was the instructional on how to format a new, or old, hard drive.
Cheers m8
thank you! ive been looking around trying to figure out how to do this and you put it in the most simple, quickest, and most understandable steps, people who know nothing about electronics could do this the way you explained it, people need to explain things like that
Compared to SATA the IDE will be a lot slower. IDE is using a parallel data type transfer. The SATA is a very high speed serial type data. SATA may also show as SCSI in the drive properties, because SATA with some types of drives will emulate SCSI.
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SSD now is a lot faster than HDD
@@IbrahimHmidan and now Nvme are a lot faster than SATA SSDs
Great video. I had to take my 2.5 SATA hard drive out of a fully working but very out of date Toshiba Equuim with windows XP today. This laptop had served me well.
Dude the time it takes to format a disk doesn't depend on if you have 10 Xeon CPUs with 1tb of RAM, it just depends on the hard disk speed
Your videos are really good, it’s easy to follow and understand when you explain. Thank you so much!
please also post a video for "how to detach INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM DESKTOP" to retrieve its data & use it on laptop ??
+A B Interesting idea I'll definitely look into but with a backlog of projects and house renovation, it will be a few months before that happens.
Thank you cleared up a lot of procedure issues for me.
Thank you for the video! It was exactly what I was looking for! I have an old Fujitsu hard drive and I didn't know how to find a case for it! You have been a huge help!!!!
".. this computer's really fast .."
Though it took so long to load the 'Computer -> Manage' that you had to skip it
Ok
The differentiation between 2.5 &3.5 was very good.
+SUDESHNA RAY It's a difference by 1" they say...
Thank you, man.. I got the HDD and the external USB for it, but didn't know what to do.. your vid helped me formatted it. and it works.
Very well explained process with minimal compu-speak. Thank you immensely!
I agree with this. I still don't get why people still buy pre-made external hard drives where some of them are proprietary and are not SATA compatible hence you can't move the drive to another enclosure once some of the parts gives up.
Formatting doesn't have much to do with the speed of your pc (the i7 you mention), it has more to do with the disk write speed and the connector speed. As you have a USB 2 connector, your speed is limited quite a lot, you'd be better of with USB 3
I have done this and it is very convinient and money saving.
What about overheating problems with these enclosures, how serious are they? Is there a way to avoid those problems, maybe to look for specific type of enclosure (with a fan or something) or something else?
What do you think about those USB to IDE / SATA 2,5" / 3,5" (universal) kits? Are they better then these external hdd enclosures or not? Thank you!
+everyoneSalegend Different cases have different performances, nothing to do with being universal or not. I suggest searching some tech sites for some cases in your budget and see what has a good review as there are hundreds of different models available.
This is a good Video for people who dont know how to do this. Thumbs up from me👍👍
Came here to see how to make my 3.5 become an external drive, accidentally found out that a block i found a long time ago is actually a 2.5 external hard drive. Time to look for it and find out what's on it
Pro tip select "Quick Format"
@Kamey also it won’t make a full format
very informatively clear video
Thank you so much this is so helpful, I fix my hard drive because of you it wasn't showing on my computer and now it's working great I did exactly what you said in the video. have a great day
Thank You Brotha!!!!
Always remember to at least get a USB 3.0 enclosure if you want your drive to be faster you must also connect it to a 3.0 port on your computer though
Excellent Explanation
thanks for the video, explained in a really good way :)
Decent video dude.
The enclosures for ole IDE internal hard drives are friggin difficult to find. However I have an usb 2.0 to IDE SATA adapter that little device is useful. But you would have to be careful not to move it around. Got it from walmart canada more than a year ago, before standard shipping fee jumped from 15.00 to 100.00 to northern area.
Cool video with good information.
Thanks 👍
Excellent clear explanation. thank you.
fantastic !! Nice video, he explained all thing in very good manner and smartly..
Thanks !!
Thanks! Now i have a place where to save my movies!
omg thank you so much i just finished salvaging our old cpus since we had a small computer shop before and i was wondering if i could see the contents again haha
hey, thanks buddy, u explain very well until the classification of SATA (new ! from desktop) & IDE (old ! from laptop) in 2.5 & 3.5 Sizes. now , what should I do if I don't have the cases & how can I connect my OLD DESKTOP HARD DRIVE to my LAPTOP ? Do I need a compatible cable & a power adapter ?? Will my laptop be able to accomodate my old internal hard disk with all my data ?? PLEASE , Boolean, DO REPLY. & THANKS AGAIN, you're doing a good job.
Can you combine both into one…. I have a bunch of both
Is it possible to find/build an external hard drive casing for a 3.5" IDE hard drive with power supply?
I took 2 IDE drives out of different old computers, one needs a power connection and the other has a powered bus.
Thanks!!!! Formating first one now. Great how to video. $6 For and 500 gb external HD.
Thank you that was super helpful.
Thanks buddy i really get a lot of information about 3.5 hard drive again thanks😊😊😊😊☺
Good video, buddy. Thanks for the information.
sata power is the larger one of the 2, the smaller one is the data btw.
Fantastic video! Thanks!
Thank you! I'm gonna be making external hard drives for money :)
I don't know why but i prefer the 2.5" obe, it's more compact !
it is not "How to Build an External Hard Drive", it is how to install a harddrive into an External Hard Drive
I’m building a hard drive business from scratch and the internet isn’t your friend when it comes to entrepreneurship and details...
no need to full format any longer- quick format is fine- online resources will explain it better than I could
Thank you!
Hello Babbling Boolean! What type of camera you used to record your tutorials? I like the video quality. Would you recommend it or is there another one you would recommend?
+DRAGON TOUCH I think for this video I used the Sony HX20V, now I'm currently using the Canon T5i.
Babbling Boolean Good day and thank you for the information. Keep up the great work.
Great Vid thanks for info now i can reuse my sata hardrive
Thxs man great vid
You can also open up an old external hard drive and switch it out for a bigger one I recently removed a 100gb drive and put in a 750 GB Drive
Also you can open up an external CD drive and put in a hard drive in side
Great information!
Great informative video but in your video you do not mention if someone has an external hdd and has an operating system already on that external hdd and how to boot into either operating system, the one in your pc or laptop.
Thanks bruda!
This is an awesome video! thank you sooo much!
Unless you know for a fact you are going to have files bigger than 4GB, then format is fat32. fat32 can be read across multiple Operating systems including Linux, Macs, etc. That is the reason why USB are fat. If you know you are going to be stuck using windows, then NTFS has it's benefits.
I format to ext4. I gave up windows years ago.
You gotta folder named speak punjabi... 😂
Keep it up man..
BRILLIANT MAN LILL WELL WANTED ITEM
I have IDE 3.5 inch type hard drive, but the enclosure have the power supply port.
i did not understand the function of it, what is the need of it?
Good video... Good explanation!
Ur voice isn't too fast lol.
But for the 3.5 desktop one you really need a case??.
I have a single usb to sata cable. It even has 2 usb connectors but it doesnt work :(... Help?
I can't find hardwares for my fostex FD4 digital mixer recorder,it's an old equipment,my Iomega jaz stops working.I saw in the manual I can install 2.5" ide hd inside,but hard to find the hardwares,like mounting parts,50 pin sockets,etc.,help is greatly appreciated.
is ide to USB convertor also getting with with this case cover ?
Youre a good teacher
:)
thanx by the way
Thanks 👍
Thanks guy
Thanks man great way to save some cash.
I did this, when I plug in the external hdd and turn it on I get an error message saying the usb-device doesn't get recognized. The drive still worked before I replaced it with an ssd last week. Is it a problem that the drive still has the old Windows on it? Any idea how to fix this?
Would you say it would be more reliable if I used a new hard drive vs. a external hard drive found on Amazon?
If the external HDD on Amazon is brand new and from a reputable seller than it shouldn't matter.
Babbling Boolean, creating the external hard drive went great everything show on line ready to use. not quite sure how to write and read on it. can you please explain?
1.5 TB 3.5 HD that is a big hard drive an around 50 bucks sometimes higher depending where you buy it but that is a lot of space you'll never run out lol
Hah! You should see the movie collection I want to move from DVD to HDD lol. But you're right, though. 1.5 TB is much more than enough room for the average person.
awesome teaching 👏👏👏😊👌🖒
well explained.
What do I need to do,to make a 1tb hard drive into an external one for the Xbox that I use now?
And can I swap a 500g to a 1tb or does that need formatted?i don't have a PC.
Your accent is so good ahaha. gained a new sub too :D
After I retrieve all the stuff on my HD, how do I keep just my pictures. I don't care about anything else, I have a new 'puter, just want my pics saved on the old HD. I will be making my old 500G HD a new external HD. I have Windows 10, it sucks but. Thanx...
Does it make any noise when it work .. because l have this problem with my case .
thank you .
Hello thanks for the video. Is there a way of daisy chaining two (or more) 2.5 inch HDs together as an external HD?
Mine doesnt show up in disk management how to fix? u talked about it for a sec but didnt say how to fix it
Im upgrading my laptop with an SSD, and I wanna use my 750GB 2.5 in HDD with this method, do I need to format it?
hey, I'm basically trying to recover old data from my old Toshiba satellite pro L650, it says it is a eSATA drive, does that mean its the same as a SATA? Do I need to buy a special adaptor or can I still use a SATA adapter?
How can i know that the HD adapter is compatible with the Hard drive(HD)
how many volts of power it requires ?
and what kind of adapter ?
I might buy this thing, but do i have to take a thunderbolt plugin?
hi, Suggest A KIT FOR SATA (2.5 & 3.5) & IDE (2.5 & 3.5) - DESKTOP HARD DRIVES to turn them into EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE - in India (which brand ?? what prices ? what capacity (how many GB ?? ) Please DO REPLY. thanks.
Nice video
A regular 2TB Western Digital hard drive? Just follow the instructions in the video above, the storage size of the hard drive doesn't make a difference. Simply search for any external hard drive case for SATA hard drives, the only condition you didn't mention is if your hard drive is 2.5" or 3.5", those are listed on the hard drive case specs anyway. Don't think too much about it, it's simple. If you're having trouble, go to a tech shop and tell them what you told me.
Babbling Boolean Hey I got the sata to usb 3 cable I've hooked it up to my Xbox one as an external drive and it works. Is there any reason I would need a case?
Working!!! Thanks a lot.......
Perfect thank you
Hello question, I have dell xps 8500 . it has ssd 32gb and 2tb hd. I know the ssd is to boost the booting. does it mean the boot occurred on the ssd or the hd?does windows in install on the ssd or hd?thanks
Will it also support on desktop? It will need a driver after installation in case? it will work like a external hard disk when plugged into the computer, like other external hard disk do? will it work like a USB to any computer?
It'll work like a USB stick or regular external drive, no driver should be needed.
If I wanted to use the 2.5 hard drive as an external all I have to do is reformat?
Yes!
No. Not necessary. You have to format and delete the C: Drive partition only if Windows installed and expand Volume to make it to full use.
why not use a external Bay for all of them?
Can I use my new Seagate DB3.4 HDD SATA250GB??? It doesnt have any partitions.
I have internal hard drive of 250 gb + OS with 4 partitions. If I convert that to an external drive all 4 partitions along with folders in it will be there??? because in many videos I can see only one drive is available when we convert internal to an external..??
Some one please help!!!
Hi,
I've an IDE internal HDD,I need to connvert it into an external one. This video was very helpful for me. Could you please tell me from where I could get the IDE casing....
In my area stores don't sell them anymore so I had to use eBay.
Okey... Thank u....
Would a 3.5 HD using this method work on a PS4 or xbox one?
Listened and watched but unclear as to saving content as the computer died but the hard drives I have were working and I do not want to waste the content in formatting.
sir what was the name for outer body of hard-disks
I have a tronsmart streaming Bob with a sata cable,What can i hook it up to?
Instead of the external enclosure can I use SATA and power adapter cables with usb to use the disk externally? I have difficulty finding the enclosure of the right size. My hard disk is 3.5" similar to the one in the video but its a lot thinner, almost half the thickness.
You could technically connect the hard drive to the computer using a SATA wire and power connections to the power supply but your computer case would remain open and static could damage the hard drive just sitting there without any protection. If your HDD is the same size but thinner then why not use an enclosure anyway? HDD enclosures usually include screws to attach a HDD in a enclosure to prevent it from shaking, so if the HDD is thinner, it wouldn't make a difference.
The only way I know to connect a HDD to a computer via USB is with an adapter, HDDs themselves don't have USB ports directly on them.
Babbling Boolean Alright, thank you!