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

Your videos are really good, it’s easy to follow and understand when you explain. Thank you so much!

thanks for the video, explained in a really good way :)

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.

fantastic !! Nice video, he explained all thing in very good manner and smartly.. Thanks !!

Thank You Brotha!!!!

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!!!!

Good video, buddy. Thanks for the information.

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 I had to take my 2.5 SATA hard drive out of a fully working but very out of date Toshiba Equuim with windows XP today.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.

Fantastic video! Thanks!

Excellent clear explanation. thank you.

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

Thank you cleared up a lot of procedure issues for me.

Great information!

Excellent Explanation

Thank you that was super helpful.

Cool video with good information.

Thanks buddy i really get a lot of information about 3.5 hard drive again thanks😊😊😊😊☺

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.

@duraiprasanth

7 жыл бұрын

👍

@IbrahimHmidan

7 жыл бұрын

SSD now is a lot faster than HDD

@YizusCrist

5 жыл бұрын

@@IbrahimHmidan and now Nvme are a lot faster than SATA SSDs

Thxs man great vid

very informatively clear video

Great Vid thanks for info now i can reuse my sata hardrive

is ide to USB convertor also getting with with this case cover ?

Very well explained process with minimal compu-speak. Thank you immensely!

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

Hello thanks for the video. Is there a way of daisy chaining two (or more) 2.5 inch HDs together as an external HD?

Working!!! Thanks a lot.......

I have done this and it is very convinient and money saving.

This is an awesome video! thank you sooo much!

awesome teaching 👏👏👏😊👌🖒

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.

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!

@Babblingboolean

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

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.

please also post a video for "how to detach INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM DESKTOP" to retrieve its data & use it on laptop ??

@Babblingboolean

8 жыл бұрын

+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!

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?

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

how many volts of power it requires ? and what kind of adapter ?

Youre a good teacher :) thanx by the way

Nice video

Will it work with 2 TB WD HDD ? Its Sata. And can you please link me to the case which supports it?

Thanks bruda!

This is a good Video for people who dont know how to do this. Thumbs up from me👍👍

The differentiation between 2.5 &3.5 was very good.

@everyoneSalegend

8 жыл бұрын

+SUDESHNA RAY It's a difference by 1" they say...

hey man great video :) im wondering could u give me a link to the 3.5 case you got ?

@Babblingboolean

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it exists anymore but you can get better ones now.

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

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?

Thanks!!!! Formating first one now. Great how to video. $6 For and 500 gb external HD.

sir what was the name for outer body of hard-disks

well explained.

Thanks 👍

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.

Thanks! Now i have a place where to save my movies!

Where do i buy the converter case for 3.5?

Love it

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.

good vid :)

Does it make any noise when it work .. because l have this problem with my case . thank you .

I have a tronsmart streaming Bob with a sata cable,What can i hook it up to?

".. this computer's really fast .." Though it took so long to load the 'Computer -> Manage' that you had to skip it

@logiic8835

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

How can i know that the HD adapter is compatible with the Hard drive(HD)

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.

thanku soo much....

Thank you! I'm gonna be making external hard drives for money :)

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?

thanks alot

Your accent is so good ahaha. gained a new sub too :D

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?

Can post the link to buy it?

Thanks man great way to save some cash.

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?

can you hook up a tower to a lap top I want to burn cd's for music ?

Perfect thank you

Can I use this with Raspberry pi3?

Will this work with sshd

THANKS

thnx, mate.. :)

Any good 3.5 sata case?

I don't know why but i prefer the 2.5" obe, it's more compact !

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

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.

Would a 3.5 HD using this method work on a PS4 or xbox one?

Thanks guy

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?

helo babbling boolean ,can you tell me ,where i must buy the case for IDE ,plz tell me what website selling the case

@Babblingboolean

7 жыл бұрын

It's really tough to find since it's really old. I got mine a few years ago from eBay.

@marklawrence1525

7 жыл бұрын

Try Amazon I found mine there!

@muhammadasyik4292

7 жыл бұрын

Ohh thanks

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?

@Babblingboolean

8 жыл бұрын

+DRAGON TOUCH I think for this video I used the Sony HX20V, now I'm currently using the Canon T5i.

@dragontouch1634

8 жыл бұрын

Babbling Boolean Good day and thank you for the information. Keep up the great work.

Great video, thanks. Im just wondering is it possible to combine more than one IDE Hard drive and putting it into a single casing? I have a few old hard drives that I would love to be able to create a big one out of.

@Babblingboolean

9 жыл бұрын

You have to find a case that has more than one slot. Since IDE is old, it might be difficult to find.

@SausagesandMustard

9 жыл бұрын

Okay Thanks :)

@upayemoony1157

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you want to do a RAID array. You need more than a case for that. Likley a NAS box.

@SausagesandMustard

2 жыл бұрын

@@upayemoony1157 thanks but I cant even remember what I was using this for 😂

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

Mine doesnt show up in disk management how to fix? u talked about it for a sec but didnt say how to fix it

Can I use my new Seagate DB3.4 HDD SATA250GB??? It doesnt have any partitions.

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....

@Babblingboolean

10 жыл бұрын

In my area stores don't sell them anymore so I had to use eBay.

@GopakumarGgopz

10 жыл бұрын

Okey... Thank u....

will my old files still be there??

I might buy this thing, but do i have to take a thunderbolt plugin?

Where did you get IDE ?? Product link Pls ..

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

is it necessary to format it? my computer doesn't work anymore so i want to make use of its internal hard drive because i have a lot of important files there.

@bangtanintlarmy5307

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the reply.

@bethemaine

7 жыл бұрын

Bangtan Int'lARMY wait do you have to format it because I have the same reason I have important stuff on it

@bangtanintlarmy5307

7 жыл бұрын

SP4RK NATION no need to format it

@ryanfahey416

6 жыл бұрын

Bangtan Int'lARMY I just bought this 9.95$ encloser for this 128gb 2.5 in Sata ssd and I got all my important stuff off

Would you say it would be more reliable if I used a new hard drive vs. a external hard drive found on Amazon?

@Babblingboolean

7 жыл бұрын

If the external HDD on Amazon is brand new and from a reputable seller than it shouldn't matter.

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.

thank you keep it going !!