I was so heart broken when my laptop crashed specifically for my files. You've helped a lot of people with this video. Thank you.

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help out so many people with this! The pictures and memories on these computers are irreplaceable!

@Sphynx93rkn

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoItYourselfDad Yes and Ty

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight

5 ай бұрын

Hunter Biden's false accusers and data manipulators?

My dad was a computer technition and he passed away 5 years ago. We have so many random hard drives laying around. Thank you so much for the video! I'm a little tech savy but I had no idea there was just a cord to treat the harddrives like an external one!

I appreciate how efficiently you get to the info and clearly show what the answer to my question was...Please for the love of God don't lose that : )

My stomach has been sickened by the loss of my hard drive. I have no idea who this all works or what it all means so I thought it meant the loss of my photos/songs/docs, etc. Your video makes me feel hopeful and that this situation is not insurmountable. Thanks Dad!

@DoItYourselfDad

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you get all your stuff back! Let us know if it works.

Thank you so much for some relief in my journey to recover a ton of old memories! Also, thanks for getting to the point and still being extremely informative. Alot of youtubers would have dragged this out for a half hour.

You are a lifesaver. Your commentary very clear and simple. Good.

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help!

Indeed a life saver and it saved me a lot of bucks since enclosure for SATA HDD comes cheap($4-8 and pretty decent). I got myself now my old data and an external storage. Thanks for the tutorial, man!

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you got your data back!

First class clear instruction, making life that bit simpler, thank you.

Thank you so very much for this information. I failed to update my insurance on a 2 year old Dell Inspiron and dropped it last weekend. I've since purchased a new Dell 15.6" 7000, 8 generation i7, from Dell and I'm setting it up now. I have so much on the Inspiron and I was so so worried I would loose everything. You're a blessing. I'm a new subscriber and Thank you again! 💕 🙏

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you could recover all that data!

@rebeccapowers3544

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for mentioning the Dell Inspiron! I was reading all the comments and yours helped me mostly because that's what I have. Thanks again!

Very clear and easy to understand. I really appreciate the help. Simplified my predicament. Thanks

Recently,I changed the old hard drive from my laptop with a new one.And then I've installed a new windows on it.On the old hard drive I have minecraft,are my world saves still in appdata? Can I recover them and put them on my new hard drive? I don't want to lose all my saves with my builds...I have so many hours in that game...

Thank you for this video. Does this also work if a hard drive disk doesn't work (and or) doesn't have cables on it? My HP one used to have a cable that was connected to the motherboard. (not sure if it's dead or not but my HP wouldn't read it anymore) I'm trying to transfer it to my Toshiba and putting the HP hard drive manually doesn't work on it.

Great job. Just watched the video and haven't attempted this yet, but you've made it look easy. Thank you.

This is such a great instructional piece! I'd been putting off getting my old mac G4 desktop to a recovery service to get my kids' growing-up photos; I did have them backed up but the external drive the data's on isn't available. Now I'll open up that graphite tower and get everything off it, as well as off several olds laptops while I'm at it. Thanks!!!

Thanks so much for this video. I'm so glad I don't have to go to some store for them to pull my data for me, the closest one in my area being HOURS away.

Thanks man. I feel too many people on the internet like hearing themselves talk. Thanks for being forthright about it.

this was so simple and easy to understand. thank you sooo much !

Really straightforward approach and explanation - thanks! Slightly off-topic question, but since you were spot-on: is there a way to grab the photos iTunes saves out when you back up your phones? I am hesitant to use cloud services but don’t know how to restore old phone backups…

Hey thanks for making this video, I’m wondering I’ve got a Fujitsu MHV2060AT 60GB 2.5in IDE HardDrv came out of an older Mac Book pre 2010. I’ve done some research and noticed the IDE drives need a power source to recover data. Do you know if the IDE drive you linked would work for this application?

Thank you so much. I was on my way to a computer store to do exactly this.

You are a life saver!! Thank you so much for sharing this you have no idea how this video was helpful. I thought I had lost all my data forever! I’m superrrr happy 😃

Besides the sata adapter, do i need to do something to power on the old hard drive? Im just wondering how the hard drive would switch on. Do i need a power supply cable or something. Im really not a techy person

Hi! This is really useful. I'm facing the same problem however my hard drive has an OS installed in it as well, along with other media that I'm trying to retrieve. If I use this method, will the installed OS in the hard drive affect the computer that I'm using to access it?

Hi there, thanks for the great video. Quick question. I bought the leads and i'm able to get the files from my old hard drive to show up on my computer but when I try and open the photos i get the message "windows photo viewer can't open this picture because either the picture is deleted or its in a location that isnt available ". Any idea on what i need to do next? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Gavin

This video helped me a lot. I was just about to try and get a hard drive from our family’s old pc and I was worried about my new computer formatting it if I tried to connect it

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Hey so my pc died and I had all of my files and I used to have an amd pavilion pc and I recently got a computer that has an I-5 cpu and I’m wondering if it works even if the hard drive will work when the files are recovered

Hello I think I have my hard drive out my question is which cable do I need to buy to hook up to my laptop to get the data out. The hard drive I am trying to get a cable for is from a very old tower HP Pavilion XT963 from the 2002. If you can let me know what cable to get

Everytime I attach a 2.5 IDE drive to my MacBook Pro any & all of my 11 drives are Shadow copied. Backups been deleted. I can no longer access my files is there anyway I can get my firewire to work on Mac OS 10.9.5

Great video simple to follow and clear for someone with very limited knowledge thanks

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Best of luck with your computer repair!

Thanks for keeping it simple. I’m not even going to call my tech friends because I feel I got it....

@khaelharvey3347

4 жыл бұрын

Did it worked?

@Menga213

4 жыл бұрын

@@khaelharvey3347 did it work for you?

@khaelharvey3347

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried it 🙁

My hard drive just crashed. I really needed this video. Thanks ! Your a Godsend!👊🏾

Excellent and beautifully explained. Very simple to follow. So simple my nan could quite easily follow this without hassle

Hey, I really want to revover some data from a laptop, got the cord but my pc isnt picking up anyting. do i need a laptop to get the hardrive goodies?

I've had a hard drive from an old laptop sitting around for ages. Finally going to try accessing the data on it because of this video. Thanks! 😁

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help!

@khaelharvey3347

4 жыл бұрын

Did it worked?

@ShmoKangaroo

4 жыл бұрын

@@khaelharvey3347 yeah!

I feel so sad for my old lappy. Got so many memories with her, thanks for the vid!

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Glad we could help!

Thanks for the video man helped me out a lot keep up the great content 🙏🏻💙

My desktop runs fine. How do I retrive particular info on my good running hard drive? trying to find a particular time frame.

I'm so happy I've just found this video, I'll order one and hopefully all goes well. Thank you so much :)

I had to login just to tell you how much I appreciate your video! Thank you! I especially like how you get right to the point without all kindas of babbling and talking. So many videos are 80% babbling and yours was 100% useful info. Thank you!

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!! I really appreciate it!

@KitJBenn

3 жыл бұрын

And you managed to read the files. Did you not think that diydad was holding something back or was I the only one that noticed that? Have a great weekend and keep safe!!👍

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

@@KitJBenn what exactly am I "holding back"?

Thanks for the demo! My computer had a password for sign on. Do I need to enter that somewhere prior to being able to copy the files onto my working computer?

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

If it is encrypted yes. If not you should be good to go.

Thank you so much i have decades of family photos on a old computer drive

I have a Toshiba laptop hard drive and I wonder if there are different designs of Sata, then which one to choose? Please let me know. Thank you.

Thank you, this was a tremendous help.

Awesome information for what I assumed was a dead issue hard drive matter. Thanks big time for saving my old files. You Rock!!

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you got your old files back!!!

Thank you! I thought this was going to be much more difficult. I can do this.

I have a hard drive from a pc and now only have a Mac can I open hard drive on a Mac or not as it’s not showing up?

Wow!!! This is an easy-peasy guide on getting your files from your old PC or laptop. I badly need this as I need to get some important files from my old hard drive, and transfer them to my new laptop. New subbie here :)

Very, very helpful! Thank you so much!

Hey man can we use our hard drive like pen drives for storing movies pictures and videos and what will happen if we again put this in our pc will it work or not please answer me

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can. And if you go to reinstall the drive back into your computer able to shop as a second hard drive, so you’ll still be able to read the files on it.

great info, tx! When transferring the data from the old drive to the receiving computer, can the data go straight into a thumb drive connected to the receiving computer, bypassing its HD? Tx much

Thank you so much for your video. It really helps. Would this work also for a fusion drive, if I connect only the disk drive and not the ssd?

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it should

Then if I want transfer data from old Mac hdd to new PC without dealing Mac computer. Will change file system to ntfs through utilities such a 'Paragon' without losing data possible ?

I can't wait to try this. I had my imac hard drive replaces because it was slowing down. I need to get a few files off of my old HD so I hope this works. Thanks.

@DoItYourselfDad

5 жыл бұрын

Hope it works!

I have an old dell similar to the one you have. When I connect the hard drive to the laptop it is not showing up. I hear a notification when it’s connected but it’s not showing up anywhere....tried disk management too. Anything I can do? Thanks

I got a 2000 0151. Hard rive is basicslly dead. Will my pc be able to read the drive tho still once I get a new maybe better one? Like if I get the cord and use it like a paperweight USB it'll still be able to read it ? ( also if it csn why can't it just be used in the pc what)

Is it possible to use the SATA cable and only read/access files from a windows hard drive with a Macbook pro? I googled it and some articles I found says you can only read/access files simplys, but not write to a PC hard drive while using a MAC

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

You can, you may have to download a software package onto your mac to give you mac the ability to read the format of your windows hard drive though,

Thank you. Great clear presentation. Lost wedding photos now recovered. For my user file I had to open in another window to access but no problem.

@DoItYourselfDad

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you got those back!

Very easy to understand. Thanks.

i have not tried this out yet but this might actually save me :D

Very helpful, thank you!

I have at least five laptops just laying around...looking forward to seeing what’s on them. Who knows what awaits me! :-) I’ll be sure to post an update on my progress. Thanks for the video! Update: It worked! Thanks again!!!

@SlimeBoy_YT

Ай бұрын

What was on it?

Thanks. Very helpful and to the poont

I have a Sony Vaio pcg-71737 Could you please tell me which cable I need. I’m 50% sure it’s a 2.5 Sata, but idk. If I open it, will it say it on hard drive?? Ok, I open hard drive. It says sata, 1gb I measured short way, it’s 2.5 inch width. So a 2.5 inch sata to usb cable will literally show up in new pc and I can just drag files if I plug in usb just like an external hd?

This was very helpful! However, my “dead” hard drive is not appearing on the MacBook when I attach it using the SATA cable. Can you help? Thanks!

@Chookity-Pok

4 жыл бұрын

If the it’s the hard drive that’s dead and not the motherboard or any other component that gets the computer started I’m afraid to tell you that there’s no way of recovering what’s on it, maybe someone professional will be able to tell you wether it’s dead or not but if it is, it’s impossible to recover it’s content

Great stuff thanks very much, while not totally computer illiterate, I am not technical either, so this kind of explanation is VERY much appreciated, THANKS AGAIN

Thank you so so much, this is what I've been looking for.

Very informative! I have an old drive I almost erased but I want to see if I can get the files off it.

does that USB cable work on a DVD/CD drive from a laptop as well? not to watch a video, but to see if the unit is working. nice oak table, too! do you still have the thinkpad laptop? thanks

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

What kid if connection does the cd drive have? It may work. Yes I still have the old thinkpad though it’s running Linux now.

@j.lietka9406

4 жыл бұрын

DoItYourselfDad not sure about the DVD drive connection i thought maybe you tried using the cable and tried! thanks

I have an older macbook pro that seems like it would be the one you used there. I also tore the HD out of my even older airplane nose mac desktop that has the ribbon plug. Is there one that does both? That second more expensive amazon link?

You had said to have the same items to transfer. Will it still work if the old hard drive is a Dell and my new laptop is H P. Can I still transfer?? Thank you

My laptop got real hot out of the blue and after it cooled down(next day) and the next day it said that there was no OS on it. When I hooked up the cable to access the hard drive the folder that was my folder(above public in the list) or Admin wouldn't open on my wife's similar laptop even though I have permission. Where do I go from here? Thanks!

If I had an old laptop that was shit down to to a ransom ware type virus a few years back, could this method work and would me antivirus extract it from the hard drive, protecting my files? If I were to scan before opening?

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Possibly? I would depend on the ransomware that was used. Some encrypt the times so they aren't readable.

I bought the SATA cable you suggested but my hard drive isn't being detected or even turned on when I plugged it into my laptop. I have a 2TB Seagate Barracuda that I would like to access. Is there anything else I can try?

Thank you I just bought using your affiliate link... this was great !

Great job 👏🏻. clearly, explained everything in 5 minutes soooooo cool

@DoItYourselfDad

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Thanks for this. I've been trying to get data off of an old hard drive, but ran into an IDE roadblock. I just purchased the FIDECO SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter that you linked to and I'm hoping that'll work without issue. It does cost more than $10, but in the end it's still cheaper than paying $50 at a shop to have someone else do it and I can reuse it on newer hard drives in the future.

@c.d.silbernagel

3 жыл бұрын

I got the adapter in the mail earlier and now I'm trying to get my PC to read the hard drive but it just keeps stalling near the end. Any suggestions?

Hey there I had saved passwords on my old hard drive that was on a desktop which stopped working. Will I be able to transfer the videos, photos, AND passwords from the desktops hardrive to my laptop? Thank you so much this will really help me it has so much memories on it

Hi my friend, thank you for this video. My Dell laptop crapped out on me this week. I bought the SATA harddrive adapter from the link in your description today. I was able to get the hard drive out of my Dell laptop and connect it to the adapter. You said that it needs to be compatible with the device (Mac with a Mac, PC with a PC, etc.), but I still tried with my Chromebook anyway and as expected it couldn't read the files on the Harddrive. I ordered a new Acer laptop that's due to arrive tomorrow... my Dell laptop was WIndows 10, so is the Acer. My question if you read this is... since the harddrive is from a Windows 10 laptop, will it work on Acer even though it's not a Dell? If you think the answer is no, I have a windows 10 Dell desktop PC in storage... would it work on there? Thank you for your time... I know I will find this out for myself this weekend but I just don't want to have my hopes up if you already know neither will work, lol.

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it should work fine. It doesn’t have to be the same brand, just operating system. Doesn’t even have to be the same version of windows .

@RaVega85

4 жыл бұрын

@@DoItYourselfDad Awesome, thank you! 😃

Trying to do this with a playsation harddrive. I have the connector is there anyway Icould plug it into my computer and see the files on it. It is from an old broken ps4 and i really want all of the vides off of it. If i try andput it in the new playstation it wants me to format the harddrive. Help

Excellent video. Helping my friend. Thank you.

Hey please someone help, so I order the cable and it came in today ( I got the right one) well I hooked up my harddrive and for one its not making any sort of noise, and for 2 its not showing anywhere on my laptop. when I plug in the cable my laptop makes a little "doo dee doo" noise but nothing comes up

What is that device u plugged in to the hard drive? The link in the description didn’t show me.

The technician that worked on my laptop said that the hard drive caused my laptop to crash. Do you think I can still recover files from that hard drive using your guide?

hi, can I connect 2 pc's, a broken pc to a working pc with a LAN cable, if the broken pc still boots up but won't load the OS? thanks

What could you recommend if after attaching, my pc shows the hard drive in devices and printers but the icon appear shaded and I cant find out how to open it. Clicking the icon just opens its properties and describes it as unavailable. I am trying to access a laptop hard drive from a pc.

Does this work if the data i want to retrieve is in a hdd and the new pc i will be using has a sdd? Thanks for this video! It's very informative and helpful.

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I did exactly that just a few weeks ago.

Can you describe the cable needed so I can order the correct one ? I’m trying to retrieve data from a hard drive on my old hp desktop computer?

Thanks for the info... very informative

Hello! Thanks for these tips. I kept getting the "no bootable" message and I took out the hard drive of my Dell laptop (it's about 8 years old not gonna ie), got an SATA cable and have connected to a new laptop (both are reg not macs) but the computer just won't recognize. There is a blue light on the cable that comes on so I know it's "on" but I hear nothing - no humming or anything...maybe not running? Still perplexed. Obviously I'm not an IT person but trying desperately to just get access to these files before I ditch the computer altogether. Thanks!

@jonathandonnelly991

3 жыл бұрын

Same problem

@ducksonplays4190

3 жыл бұрын

Did you connect power? Just the sata cable alone isn't enough to turn on the drive.

Thank you so much !!! work like a charm 10 years of lost data recovered .

So I have an "old" PC hard drive connected to a new one and now downloading all the files -- except -- it can't see the desktop files and folders! What am I missing?? SATA drive, PC to PC.

@DoItYourselfDad

5 жыл бұрын

Are you on a PC or a MAC?

@DashboardSymbols

5 жыл бұрын

Ok, so I am relieved and a little shocked to find that the Desktop files were copied over. All is well (or as well as can be expected), thanks.

@edmonbabao8192

4 жыл бұрын

DashboardSymbols.com i have the same issue with mine. how did you do it?

3:20 If the old pc was on Win7 and new one on which I will take the information from the hdd is on Win10 is it a problem or only PC - Mac have problem?

@DoItYourselfDad

Жыл бұрын

Will not be a problem.

I got my drive onto another laptop, but i cant access any User files. I cant see Documents or Pictures, etc but i can see my Program files - do i have to do some sort of transfer or something more to see them? I tried it on my work laptop, that may be blocking external stuff, but it doesnt usually block my small thumb drives - so not sure where to find all those files?

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

You may have to go into settings and select "Show Hidden Files and Folders"

Like many others here I really needed this video. Thanks for your advice and help. Your making the world a better place :D

So that same adapter can be used for both the laptop and desktop hard drive, correct? Do you know why some folks use the enclosure case instead in the adapter?

@DoItYourselfDad

2 жыл бұрын

They may have the enclosure case already laying around, do you have a nice thing about an enclosure case is a far drive is so good you can now use it as an extra hard drive if you have a case.

Whenever I try to click the links in the description, the product is either no longer available or no longer sold? Is there any way you could redirect me to ones which would for an old Hp Pavilion

@DoItYourselfDad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up, I just updated the links, here they are: Cable for SATA Laptop and desktop Drives: amzn.to/3e3Vfjl Cable for SATA Laptop, Desktop and older ide drives: amzn.to/3cT5XJe

Thank you so, so much for this! You just saved my budding online art business. 🙏💖

@buddinghp8665

3 жыл бұрын

For a moment there I thought I saw my name.

Also, how can I remove the admin privilege from an old HDD? I put it on when it's was in my old PC, but i don't remember how, and now I removed the HDD from PC and i connect it to my laptop, i can acces other folders on it, but the ones with pictures I can't. It says I don't have permission.

This is a great help! I don't want my tech to see my scandal video on hard drive so I'll need to recover it to my new pc and delete it on the hard drive problem fix 😛

@jaimico787

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Will this show the BIOS information to retrieve my Activation key? I realized that the key is in the system only after i replaced the drive, laptop is a nightmare when it comes to open it back up.thanks!!!