Internal Hard drive to external??

Chong · 14-07-2005 11:45am #1

Ok I want to buy an internal hard drive and convert it to an external one, so please can you guys gimme advice on how to do this, and what I need to do this.

Any advice or tutorials would be greatly appreciated.

galwaydude18 · 14-07-2005 11:49am

just buy an external case for an internal drive! You can get them on komplett.ie

pauln · 14-07-2005 11:51am

You need one of these -> http://www.komplett.ie/k/kl.asp?bn=10095

jor el · 14-07-2005 2:37pm

The Zynet enclosure on Komplett is very good, I have two of the USB/Firewire ones and both work perfectly. Alternately you can search Ebay for "usb ide" and get something like this.
Not as neat and probably not as good as the enclosure, but cheaper.

Jerryc · 14-07-2005 4:06pm

saw some on www.munstercomputers.com.
They have some which are pretty cheap.
e12.50 for P&P, but still cheaper than komplett.ie (me thinks)

Chong · 14-07-2005 4:19pm

But is this easy to do and has anyone got a tutorial.

zuma · 14-07-2005 4:28pm

Putting any hard drive into a caddy is fairly simple.

Power connector, data connector fit one way.
Scew it together and connect the DC adapter and data cable...simple.

Chong · 14-07-2005 4:35pm

Have I not got do all this slave bullsh*t.

galwaydude18 · 14-07-2005 4:39pm

Nope you do not have to do that. It will be set to either master or cable select. No need to mess with the jumpers on the drive! Just follow what zuma said to do.

zuma · 14-07-2005 4:41pm

No...as simple as that.

If its external and connects through Firewire/USb then it sets itself up automatically(Plug and Play).

I have 3 external drives(2 x 2.5" and 1 x 3.5") so I know what Im talking about.

Its really simple!!!

Internal Hard drive to external??

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