I have an old hard drive that came out of a computer whose motherboard overheated. It was a slave drive with no OS. It had all my video and music data on it. We trashed the old computer but took this out. I really don't want to open my brand new computer to make this the slave drive, is there any way to make this an external with an enclosure without having to reformat it and partition it in effect losing all of my old data?
2006-12-30 05:36:03 · 3 answers · asked by maebe3 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
you can buy a USB Hard Disk box, and put your hard drive in that box. this box will be connected to your computer by a USB cable and no change to hard drive is required.
2006-12-30 05:41:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You can get an external hard drive enclosure for about $20-$40 from several places. Look at newegg.com for example. The enclosure is usually USB to IDE.
Put the drive in the enclosure, (easy) and plug into your USB. Voila!
2006-12-30 13:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by BigRez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the easiest way and cheapest way is to just open the case and plug it in, provided that does not jeopardize the warranty.
Power it off. After you have it plugged into the ribbon cable and power supply, start the computer and look for the drive in Windows Explorer.
2006-12-30 13:41:22 · answer #3 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋