is an external the same thing as an internal hard drive?

Question

i have extra internal hard drives can i take them to an computer place and they can make them into external hard drives?

Answer 1

You could, but that would probably cost as much as getting an External drive, all ready to go. A computer place would work for FREE? Visit http://www.newegg.com and use the search tool for EXTERNAL DRIVE and you will see.

I recently bought this Western Digital USB drive with 400GB for about $220. You can get a smaller one for about $120.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144429

Answer 2

The external HD is an internal one with 'life support' so it can get power and data externally. There's no problem in freeing it for it's case and installing it onside your PC.

Answer 3

yes, you may ask for a 2.5" USB enclosure or a 3.5" USB enclosure depending on the Internal Hard drive you hv. If you remove the internal hard drive from a desktop PC, it is a 3.5" type and if you removed it from a Notebook PC, it is a 2.5" type

Answer 4

you can do it yourself, just buy a hard drive enclosure, remove the internal hard drive from the machine then fit it into the enclosure, plug it in and voila - the internal hard drive becomes an external hard drive :)

Answer 5

u can find a lot on ebay u need
USB External 3.5" Hard Disk Drive Case

example of search

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&catref=C6&satitle=external+hard+disk+case+3.5&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=76012&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=

Answer 6

You get an Casing that Can Convert your Internal HDD to an External One.......OR....u get an IDE to USB Converter...that is Much Cheaper than the Casing....But CASING is SAFE to Use.......Hav Fun

Answer 7

the respond is esentially if its a USB exterior stress you will discover it is superb suitable to storage and archives flow. eSata is largely an inner stress as far because of the fact the mobo knows. the difficulty this is the way the storage communicates with the processor and the Chipset on the Mobo. inner oriented drives have an more desirable precedence speedier bus conenction to the processor and centers like direct memory get entry to to velocity up flow and operability. USB gadgets are on a greater peripheral oriented set of interrupt requests. eSata actually provides the superb of the two worlds yet its basically basically out of its infancy somewhat so its nonetheless a sprint expensive and quirky.

Answer 8

Just buy a harddrive enclosure. You can find those in most computer store. Make sure you buy the right harddrive interface like IDE or SATA. And also right interface to your computer, USB or fireware.

Answer 9

Yes it can be done, they make enclosures for that purpose.

Answer 10

YES